Some Useful Quotes on Memory
In my reading lately I have come across an unlikely (for me) theme: memory. Here are a few compelling quotes to ponder.
"If all art is metaphor, then all art begins with memory. The ancient Greeks knew this: In their origin myths, they cite Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, as the mother of the Nine Muses.
To fullly appreciate the authority of memory, you need to appreciate the more exotic forms of memory lurking on the fringes. You remember much more than you think you do, in ways you haven't considered."
- from The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life by Twyla Tharp
"Your personal truth is what you remember and act on [...] In Greek, the word for truth is aletheia, which means 'not succumbing to Lethe,' the waters of forgetfulness."
- from Growing Big Dreams: Manifesting Your Heart's Desires Through Twelve Secrets of the Imagination by Robert Moss
Through the gift of an inheritance truly inhabited, we come to understand that memory creates and influences what is about to happen, and has little to do with what we quaintly and often unimaginatively call the past.
- from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
And a couple from Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing:
"She told me I possessed what every great mathematician required, an excellent memory and a sense of poetry."
"I'm sure you know that, without obsession, there is no life's work. But where does this attentiveness come from? Have you asked yourself? Surely it's what we each carry, in greater and greater quantities as we age, remembrance."
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