Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Overstated on purpose, and pointing at something ordinary: what stays with you is almost never the information. Years later you remember a phrase somebody used, the light on a particular afternoon, the exact way a room smelled. Compressed, vivid, apparently useless material is what memory keeps, while the summaries dissolve.

That has a practical edge if you are trying to be remembered or to remember. Say the specific thing rather than the general one. And spend a little of your time on whatever gives you those compressed moments, since they are what you will actually own at the end.