“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities
Source: Invisible Cities
The Valley (1820), st. 9
“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities
Source: Invisible Cities
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Jeffrey Montgomery (1953–2016) American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive
America...You Kill Me
“For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.”
Esmeralda Santiago (1948) Puerto Rican writer and actor
Source: When I Was Puerto Rican
Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) Italian French late medieval author
Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre,
Seulete m'a mon doulz ami laissiée,
Seulete suy, sanz compaignon ne maistre,
Seulette suy, dolente et courrouciée.
Cent Balades, no. 11, line 1; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 12. Translation from Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone (eds.) A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (1980) p. 203.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
Context: Their dream had left me numb and cold,
But yet my spirit rose in pride,
Refashioning in burnished gold
The images of those who died,
Or were shut in the penal cell.
Here's to you, Pearse, your dream not mine,
But yet the thought, for this you fell,
Has turned life's water into wine.
“Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.”
Thomas Moore The Last Rose of Summer
The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)