“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.” WarRealitySeemsAgePoetryFoundLostSpeakMemoriesSimpleDaughterTestsAccountsIntuitionFantasticRevoltUnrealActualityArtifice Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.” MenSoulCharacterPastMemoriesAliveFashionTestsRichesTest Of Character Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.” KnowsRealMomentsValuesEnjoyMemoriesColorTestsPhotographerGoldenSentimentsBathsTransSplendorPlungeTranquilTrue ValueRecoil Author:Georges Duhamel
“... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.” KindArtFeelingsRealityArtistMemoriesIntellectualTestsMusicalPoeticConstructionPlasticScopeTouchstones Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone” LongSaidFacesJoyFoundNamesLostMemoriesWalksDoubtPrideCircumstancesTestsEndureFlightAviationSoloFrightRough TimesCrypticAfterglow Author:Gill Robb Wilson