What’s a small moment from your past that you still think about years later? View all responses Roman Campagna by Thomas Cole in 1843. Some questions have been definitively answered. so much so that they become a barrier for having anything to say of my own about them, except that I remember the ‘small moment’ … More ‘… Only I discern— / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn’. Thinking after the moment goes is endless ‘yearning’.