9 Quotes & Sayings By Mira Bartok

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1982. Mira's early experiences in the arts gave her the "inclination" for music. She started out playing piano and ultimately violin, violin and music theory. She didn't thrive in school but studied music anyway Read more

While at the conservatory, her composing teacher encouraged her to try writing poems. She started writing poems when she was 12 years old. At 16, Mira was accepted into the Department of Hungarian Studies at Columbia University in New York City where she studied Hungarian language and literature at Columbia University for two years.

Mira also took courses in Philosophy, History of Ideas & Cinema, Music Composition, and Contemporary World Literature at Columbia University. She wrote about her educational background in her 2008 poetry collection entitled The Sound of Silk. Her other published works are: Everyday Life (2008), The Ladies Club (2010), A Strange Collection of Poetry (2011), A Collection of Poetry That Could Be Called "A Small Memoir" (2011), A Collection of Poetry That Could Be Called "A Small Memoir" (2012).

Her poem "The Sound Of Silk" appeared on the Drudge Report website in 2010.

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Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am! Mira Bartok
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I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges. Mira Bartok
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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur. Mira Bartok
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We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling. Mira Bartok
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Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired? Mira Bartok
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We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling. Mira Bartok
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We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong. Mira Bartok
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I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. Mira Bartok