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.
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.
. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.
Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
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