Warren Zevon Quotes

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I have a great memory.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

And never forget, there is memory.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.