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.
I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...
In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.
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