Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.


Remembrance of Things Past: The Guermantes way. Cities of the plain (ed. Vintage, 1982) - ISBN: 9780394711836

Marcel Proust Quotes

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth....

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth....

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth....

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth....