We look at the world once, in childhood.
Nobel Laureate Louise Glück, in the poem ‘Nostos‘ from the collection ‘Meadowlands’, 1996
The rest is memory.
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What a wonderful quote! Thank you!
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There’s something of truth in it, for sure
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I’m not sure I agree with this quote, or quite understand it.It can be read in a couple of different ways and is slightly provocative, which isn’t a bad thing. Like you said ‘there’s something of truth in it’ but what is it?
On a side note, I managed a quote a day for all of 2022 (all of which were good and stimulating (to my mind of course)), along with a poem a day that year too (some of which were reasonably good, others maybe not so (but I’m still proud of them)).
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I reckon we observe more, with more wonder, as children. Kids are in the moment more often. The bit in the poem before these lines inferred that children see the world in a more (lyrical) poetic way.
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I get it and the context of the other lines would clarify. But ‘the rest is memory’ feels to me like it should be ‘all is memory’. I think one of the upsides of being a teacher is watching kids discover things again – living vicariously….
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