Quotes About Nostalgia

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear on good days…

With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / ???? ????? ????? ???? ???????

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it's the times that don't feel real that we remember forever?

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.

Truth is, moments come to an end. That's how memories are created.

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that