#memo

Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It’s beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#longing #memories #winter-eve #beauty

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#everyday #everyday life #find #heart #just

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#memory #never #supposed #tomorrow #yesterday

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#close #complications #connection #fact #fluctuations

I have an old brain but a terrific memory. ↗

— Al Lewis

#i #memory #old #terrific

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#area #between #gray #gray area #happened

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#enlightenment #forever #life-lessons #memories #spirituality

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #came #childhood #hadn #having

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. ↗

— Darin Strauss

#family