Certain Quote by Stephen Spender

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

— Peter Davison

Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate…

— Joshua Foer

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention, insight, or…

— Joshua Foer

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

— Stanley Kunitz

“The most important lesson I took away from my year on the competitive memory circuit was not the secret to learning poetry by heart,…

— Joshau Foer

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

— Seamus Heaney

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We…

— Virginia Woolf

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things…

— Stephen Spender

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it”

— William Hazlitt

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just a bundle…

— Joshua Foer

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will…

— Otto Weininger