The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward so he can be proud of his daddy.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect not a pleasurable memory of itself but an immediate constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

There are so many things that poetry is about one of which is memory.

You can find poetry in your everyday life your memory in what people say on the bus in the news or just what's in your heart.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time but it is poetry in the memory.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them and I am a poet of memory.