Misquoting from memory
Writing from memory, I had “The stone’s in the midst of it all.” That’s how I’ve had the line in my head since I was an undergrad. But no. Yeats’s poem reads, “The stone’s in the midst of all.”
Memorizing poetry
Molly Worthen, historian, writes about the value of memorizing poetry.
Poetry and memory
Susan Howe, reading T. S. Eliot to a friend with dementia.