#recollect

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#feelings #origin #overflow #poetry #powerful

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#artist #every #every man #great #her

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

#only #out #paradise #recollection #turned

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#amount #any #arrangements #dad #detail

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ↗

— Washington Irving

#his #idol #our #out #pushes

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#cannot #certainty #conducting #emigrate #facility

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#bare #kindles #recollection

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #memory #metaphor #recollection #humor

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been. ↗

— Jane Austen

#feelings #going-away #memories #parting #recollections

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ↗

— Peter Berger

#changing #flexible #happened #interprets #malleable