--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I hadn't memorized much by then, and what I had
> memorized wasn't of
> great quality, but repeating my small stock of
> memorized verse over and
> over sort of helped me get through the night.
Yes, this is the best reason in my opinion, and I have some poems memorized for such situations (though usually not that grave). Otherwise, I prefer to ABSORB material (memorize it as a result of working with it) rather than rote memorization. I am not arguing that is better, just what works for me.
-Thomas
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