The History of Forgetting Quotes

“Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.”
― Lawrence Raab, The History of Forgetting

“We want to forget
until we start to forget.

from the poem Regret”
― Lawrence Raab, The History of Forgetting

“The great poem is always possible.
Think of Keats and his odes.
But we shouldn’t have to be dying,

What I’m writing now is not
the great poem. After a few lines
I could tell. It may not even be

a particularly good poem, although
it’s too early to decide about that.
Keep going, I say. See what happens.”
― Lawrence Raab, The History of Forgetting