#memo

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#balcony #calling #edge #farther #flight

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#forget #intensely #memory #nothing #thing

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#feels #good #lie #man #memory

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#labor #leave #memory #only #stuff

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. ↗

— Rick Moody

#i #make #makes #memorable #more

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

#doing #exactly #great #happened #i

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. ↗

— Rick Moody

#earliest #earliest memories #family #grandfather #had

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#free verse #memorable #much #poem #poetry

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#anybody #england #flooded #gates #join

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#back #forever #get #memory #perfect