A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career it expunged all memory of its existence.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward so he can be proud of his daddy.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect not a pleasurable memory of itself but an immediate constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.

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.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time but it is poetry in the memory.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them and I am a poet of memory.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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

Music when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.