To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
Interpretation
Careful observation enhances memory and understanding.
This quote by Edgar Allan Poe highlights the profound connection between observation and memory. By paying close attention to what we see and experience, we not only gain deeper insights but also enhance our ability to remember and recall details accurately, suggesting that mindfulness and awareness are crucial for learning and retaining knowledge.
In practice
This quote can be used in a classroom setting to encourage students to pay attention while learning.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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