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Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Richard von Weizsaecker

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Remembrance

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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Remembrance

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

Frederick Buechner

Remembrance

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.