I have memorized the first 300 lines of paradise lost, the opening soliloquy from Richard III, The Raven, and then a bunch of quotes from historical figures and books.

>>25547689
the jabberwocky

Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape shifting master of darkness unleashed an unspeakable evil, but a foolish Samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me!

Before the final blow was struck, I throw open a portal in time and flung him into the future where my evil is strong!
Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is AKU!!!

I used to have some Shakespeare speeches and dialogue memorised
I have Brise Marine memorised

>>25547689
I've memorized a few bible verses. It take a bit to really stick a verse in my noggin.
I especially like Corinthians 13:4-8
**Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.**
**It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;**
**it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.**
**Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.**
**As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.**

Some Robert Frost
The Raven
was working on To Be or Not To Be, but for some reason got side tracked.

Sadly though whenever I see an opportunity to actually quote one, I realize I'm not really in the right social circles to be quoting poetry. So I'll mostly just recite them to myself while driving sometimes.

>>25547689
For a while I was using a spaced repetition system geared specifically for memorizing text called linebyline.app but at some point I fell off it. I can recommend if you have the discipline to stick with it though.

>>25548054
those few verses btfo the wntire bible. once i realised the weight of what paul was saying here, i really stopped caring so much about "religion."

I've got a few things memorized:

-To Be or Not to Be
-The St. Crispin's Day Speech
-Prospero's Farewell Address
-Puck's Ending Speech
-Sonnet 18
-"So We'll Go No More A'Roving" by Byron

Been meaning to memorize "To Autumn" by Keats.

>>25549459
Oh! I also have Marc Antony's Funeral Oration memorized.

>>25547689
Got any tips for a better memorization?

>>25547689
The Eagle by Freddy Tennyson
Daffodils by Wordsworth

The female of the species is much deadlier than the male
I just memorized this line and I drop it casually to nag my wife.

>>25547689
My own poems and nothing else.

I memorized all of Finnegan's Wake, and every possible arrangement it can take.

The

>>25547689
i had memorized some poems by swinburne and catulle mendes but i forgot them
>>25552114
i also get this but honestly i dont feel like its really memorizing
i had to go through the work of coming up with them, analyzing what i had to see if i really liked them and repeating them over and over again to see if they sounded good or if i wanted to change something, so me remembering them is just a byproduct of that, not a conscious effort of memorizing something

>>25553932
that's fair.

>>25552145
>Begin again, Finnegan
Then you must be aware of the opening line, which still gives me chills to this very day

>>25554002
Yes, but have you ever rearranged it alphabetically into a quote by Kant? Very profound. Most likely intentional. Joyce is a genius.

>>25547689
One, you're like a dream come true
Two, just wanna be with you
Three, girl it's plain to see
that you're the only for me, and
Four, repeat steps one through three
Five, thank you for the love with me
Whenever I believe my work is done,
Then I'll start back at one

"Memory is an instrument of wondrous service, without which judgement is hard put to it to do its duty. In me it is entirely lacking. ... it is so extremely bad that I have more than once happened to pick up again, thinking it new and unknown to me, a book which I had carefully read several years earlier and scribbled all over with my notes" -- Montaigne

To Be or Not to Be
Dogs of War from Julius Caesar
Sonnet 29
Concord Hymn

That's my repertoire now, everything else to wit is forgotten or only loosely remembered