Historian Quote by Paul Geraldy

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

“A memory is not the thing remembered.”

— Patrick Ness

“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our…

— Gaston Bachelard

“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own…

— Pat Conroy

“The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of his subject's…

— A.S. Byatt

“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.”

— Leah Bobet

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

— Stanley Kunitz

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“What isn't remembered never happened. Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.”

— Yoshitoshi ABe

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the…

— Rebecca Wells