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Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.”

Wells Country Memories Cities Drug Machines Determined Ghost Teeth Knees Sunshine Chicago Telephones My Sunshine

Author:Conor Oberst

“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”

Feels Beautiful Memories Cities Sun Wonderful Childhood Grew Grew Up Filled Beach Privileged Coast Eastern Beautiful City Wonderful Memories

Author:Luca Parmitano

“My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.”

Book Helping Three Speak Hours Memories Cities Gone Sorrow Beats Soldier Noble Rage Injury Steel Trails Widowed

Book:The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play

Source: The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play

“The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.”

Men Memories Cities Organs Great Cities

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”

Kind States Helping Would Be School Girl Memories United Effort Cities Boys United States Taught Capable Honorable Memorial Monument Livelihood Great Cities

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.”

Men Giving Soul Light Faces Turns Passion Memories Cities Blood Civilization Red Peaceful Dull Wilderness Routine Fierce Peril Marketplace Envious

Author:Estwick Evans

“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.”

Feels Faces Form Memories Animal Cities Class Gone Taken Hatred Ancient Curious Dominant Jungle Mammals Reptiles

Book:The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere

Source: The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere

“I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.”

Ifs Wells May Long Character Might Memories Cities Reader Circumstances Hundred Painful Intense Instance Excitement Remarkable Long Ago Baltimore

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.”

“We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.”

Way Able Political Culture Fighting Lost Memories Cities Achievement Highest Moved Congress Punishment Territory Solitary Political Systems Confinement Solitary Confinement Deep Things

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.”

Feelings Wanted Remember Language Memories Cities My Family Immigrants Mexico Very Deep Mexico City Fond Memories

Author:Louis C. K.

“One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.”

Men Way Sometimes Would Be Running Kids Sound Memories Cities Growing Up Clear Growing Bunch Phenomenon New Orleans Kids Growing Up Sound Of Music Aurora Kids Playing Trotting

Author:Danny Barker

“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner..., things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.”

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Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars or the whole city, and I'm putty, I'm melting in your arms. Then I think having a romantic night, getting a little dressed up, but don't kill yourself trying to force the romance. A bunch of little subtle changes that will make the day more special will amount to a big awesome day in your memory. I like little breadcrumbs along the way. Draw it out!”

“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.”

Thinking Doe Remember Three Church Memories Cities Streets Building Taught Kings Needed Walking Soldier Broke Sunday Cop Palms Remember When Great Work Luther Riot Palm Sunday

Author:Ian MacKaye

“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.”

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Author:Daniel Libeskind

“I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.”

Stories Wanted Memories Cities Childhood Grew Grew Up Los Angeles Childhood Memories

Author:Curtis Hanson

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