#Memory in literature

[arylleth]

i have a longing that's killing me.

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness

[feral-ballad]

Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty: Poems; “Entanglement”

[Text ID: “You are there. I am here. I remember.”]

[metamorphesque]

― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

[cafehopping]

Better off forgotten

The Memory PoliceBy Yoko Ogawa274 pp. Vintage. $16. The most disappointing book I’ve read this year. What should have been a dazzling work of dystopian literature comes off as an unoriginal retread. This just goes to show that intriguing concepts don’t necessarily translate to great literature. The “action” — if you can call it that — takes place on a Japanese island where disappearances of…

[luthienne]

George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]

[y2kaee]

[nobita-here]

Dear me ,

Don't be hard on yourself , you're doing okay

[deviika]

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Daniel Kahneman

[mournfulroses]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

[amicus-noctis]

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” ― Louise Gluck

Photo: from Andrei Tarkovskys "The Mirror" (1975)

[echoesoftheinfinite]

I remember all the things that you've forgotten.

[quotespile]

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

[feral-ballad]

Linda Pastan, from Waiting for My Life: Poems; "What We Want"

[Text ID: "and in the morning / our arms ache. / We don't remember the dream, / but the dream remembers us."]

[metamorphesque]

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]

[typewriter-worries]

Mercy, Mercy Me, John Murillo

[luthienne]

Paul Celan, Selections

[Text ID: Memory, / set up your flag at half-mast. / At half-mast / today and forever.]