Possessed by Memory Quotes

“Many of us, remembering the now remote erotic attachments of our youth, [. . .] find that involuntarily we remain haunted by a voice we heard emanating from the beloved that seemed timeless and therefore permanent. There is some link that binds together the making of a poem, the illusions of recall, and the tenuous expectation that somehow we will hear again the voice that preceded the instauration of a cosmos forlorn and vagrant, through which we bleakly wander, unable to distinguish what was and what we strain to find again.”
― Harold Bloom, Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism