Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

Memory is imagination pinned down.

Memory demands an image.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

What business does memory have with time?

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Dreams aren't memories," he says.

Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.