2,914 Quotes About Memory

Dahulu aku sering bertanya sendiri; kalau puisi itu berwujudakan seperti apakah dia? Matahari? Bulan? Bintang? Gunung?Laut? Bertahun lalu aku temukan puisi memancar mancar dari matamu,masuk ke dalam tubuhku. Seperti yang kau duga pada akhirnyaaku tahu puisi tak pernah punya rupa. Ia rasa yang menggenang,meluap di jemari kenangan. Kenangan bernama engkau

Dan kerinduan pagi pada matarimemberi jejak pada puisi yang resah senantiasa,memanjati dinding hari dalam dekapan memori,menanti takdir berikutnya bagi cinta tanpa spasi ini

Berjalanlah agar yang indah-indah menjadi terkenang. Melepaskan bukan berarti menghilangkannya. Melepaskan itu justru membebaskan untuk bisa memilih. Memilih bagian mana yang akan tetap tinggal dan mana yang akan pergi.

I see you everywhere In the scratched mirrors The dusty pages The empty chairs And in the sad songs that everyone else seems to avoid For you did have a habit of always Breaking the things that once were whole,Making hell out of homes,And leaving souls starving for the things you’ve been feeding your heart on all along …

My poetry has been engraved with your nameAnd my heart is by your memory scarred

These fragments, these shivers of my heartAre mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute

Someone mentioned your name today,took me down memory lane,to a time very much younger, a time more pure, more sane.

I love listening to the sound of your heart beating,the comforting memory of a cuddling womb.

He came to the conclusion that it was because there were some things you remembered with your head, like numbers, and other things you remembered with your heart, like shapes, colours, and shadows. He was a heart-memory type.