The power of a name
One of the finest devices of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is the flashback from present war to past Arcadia. When...
Like the pigeons in St Mark’s
An unusual way to capture ever-present memories, likening them to pigeons underfoot in the Piazza San Marco, cooing and strutting...
Remember, like it or not
Maxim Gorky's (1868-1936) childhood was scored with regular beatings, some life-threatening, by his grandfather. His resilience, emotional as much as...
Long-memoried trees
We know that trees record time and climate in their year-rings – wide rings in good growing years, skinny...
The past as precious
The opening lines of a less well known novel, Mary Webb's engaging Precious Bane. Â She opens her foreword with a...
Defining moments
It has always interested me how life can turn on a sixpence, for better and worst. Adam Bede is one...
Make way for others
This made me laugh but sadly, Thoreau didn't record the response of Dr. Bartlett when his kind invitation was declined. ...
Slow-drifting years
Something memorable fresh and sharp in the mind even after many 'slow-drifting years'.
An unusual concept as for me, and...
We exist while we are remembered
This theme captivates me and I have other quotations on the idea that we live for as long as someone...
Poetry as recall
Slowly I’m building a collection of quotations defining poetry. With a few more in the bag, we can lay them...
Smell as a carrier of memory
For better or worse, few things can as quickly transport you to another place, time, or experience as a smell. ...
On being scalped
Hodgson Burnett is best known for The Secret Garden, but she also wrote the well-known though misunderstood Little Lord Fauntleroy....
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