Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the
absent; it is the liquid solution in which art
develops the snapshot of reality.
Cyril Connolly
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye,
to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
?Margaret Fairless Barber
We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it
all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral
composition of disjointed memories. . .
?Florence King
I wept as I remembered how often you
and I had tired the sun with talking
and sent him down the sky.
?Callimachus
That is the land of lost content, I see it
shining plain, the happy highways where
I went and cannot come again.
?A. E. Housman
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not
akin to pain, and resembles sorrow
only as the mist resembles the rain.
?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the
sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
?Alice Childress
