Free verse Quote by Robert Morgan

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

— Nick Flynn

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I…

— Jack Prelutsky

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

— E. W. Howe

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

— Don Paterson