“I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.” LittlesLongMadeFatherMemoriesWonderJourneyCarTrainVagueVisitingLadSydneyCanberra Author:John Henry Carver
“Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.” ArtistMemoriesPathJourneyGuides Author:Nick Bantock
“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.” SelfAgeSidesMemoriesWatchesImpossibleJourneyReturnMessagesDrawsGardenDistanceOld AgeHorizonVoidSunlightSignalsAstronautQuietnessWatch MeDecipherRipeningFar Side Author:R. S. Thomas
“Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.” KnowsMemoriesJourneyMarkersJourney Through Life Book:The Ashes of Eden Source: The Ashes of Eden
“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.” NeedsGivingLostMemoriesMy OwnLossRecordsJourneyPoetBecomingLosingSugarAuntGive And TakeMemory LossLost OnesLosing Her Author:Natasha Trethewey
“I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.” KindLongTogetherLeftRealizingHoursMemoriesTakenJourneyWindowPassingPassingsStaringPoeticAbsentIpadsAbsent Minded Author:Damon Albarn