Texts I have memorized over the years:
Shakespeare sonnets.  Probably 60-70 of them.  I can only recite about half that number now.  A few soliloquies from Hamlet.  Prologues from Henry V.    
Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said.  A good chunk of this text.  The most prose I've ever memorized.  I can't recite any of it know. Beckett's "Ohio Impromptu."  A short play with only one speaking part.  
Claudio Rodríguez.  Probably 40-50 poems.  I can relearn these quickly whenever I want. 
WCW:  Most of the famous shorter poems, and a few known only to a few readers.  I can relearn these easily whenever I want as well.  Some I've never forgotten.   
Frost: Most of the better known sonnets and a few other short poems.  
O'Hara:  Two or three of my favarites like "To the Harbormaster." 
Yeats:  Maybe a dozen poems. 
Keats:  Some of the Odes.  I have to relearn them each time.
Stevens:  Quite a bit.  Mostly shorter poems. I memorize them quickly but forget them again.  
One or two poems a piece by numerous others, Creeley, Bécquer... a lot of anthology poems, "Go, lovely rose..."  "Rose cheeked Laura, come."  
Memorability is a funny thing. For example, Barbara Guest is one of my favorite poets, but I can't seem to memorize her poetry with any ease.  She doesn't have that particular kind of "stickiness."  With cummings I retain the rhythm but don't remember the particular words:  my father moved through dooms of love / through blanks of blank, through blanks of blank / singing each morning out of each night / my father moved through blanks of blanks." My 99-year old Grandmother has plenty of texts by memory, so maybe it's genetic.  Some people memorize, some don't. I can't say we memorizers are superior, but I can't imagine not doing it.  I can do it quickly, but don't retain all that well...   
   
     
 
 
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