Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.

Each loved one went silently down;bubbles bursting leaving behindimages they heldto stick on the glass of memory.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

People will forget what you saidPeople will forget what you didBut people will never forget how you made them feel.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.

Love is inaudible—until you hear it. And once you do, you’ll never forget the sound of her voice.


Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.