#recollect

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#recollection #beauty

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#hope #poem #poetry #recollection #business

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. ↗

— William Faulkner

#memory #recollection #belief

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#became #found #happened #how #hung

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#feelings #origin #overflow #poetry #powerful

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#artist #every #every man #great #her

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

#only #out #paradise #recollection #turned

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charles #earth #father #first #group

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#cannot #certainty #conducting #emigrate #facility

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#bare #kindles #recollection