Biting Quote by Patricia Hampl

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

— Patricia Hampl

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

— Patricia Hampl

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of…

— Patricia Hampl

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

— Patricia Hampl

“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories…

— Patricia Hampl

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,…

— Patricia Hampl

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

— Patricia Hampl

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just…

— Patricia Hampl

Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health,…

— Patricia Hampl

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all…

— Patricia Hampl

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more…

— Patricia Hampl

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

— Patricia Hampl