Marge Piercy Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Husband

• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Moving

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

• I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

  Marge Piercy

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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