
The Memory Of Joy

Aeschylus
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Anna Akhmatova
I have a lot of work to do today;

Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,

Anna Akhmatova
Turn my living soul to stone

Anna Akhmatova
Then teach myself to live again.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
No summer ever came back,

Nathaniel Hawthorne
and no two summers ever were alike.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Times change, and people change;

Nathaniel Hawthorne
and if our hearts do not change as readily,

Nathaniel Hawthorne
so much the worse for us.