Will Carleton (1845–1912) poet.
Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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English Romantic poet 1795–1821Related quotes
“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Variant: Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.
Source: The Glass Menagerie
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Under the Harvest Moon" (1916)
Context: Under the summer roses
When the flagrant crimson
Lurks in the dusk
Of the wild red leaves,
Love, with little hands,
Comes and touches you
With a thousand memories,
And asks you
Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
Stephen Levine (1937–2016) American poet and author
Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Variant: Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
“The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.”
Valerie Solanas book SCUM Manifesto
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 5 (hyphen (not en- or em-dash) so in original).
