Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.