For instance, I can tell you that "There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons -- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes --" not because I memorized Emily Dickinson in school when I was in high school, but because there was a girl when I was in high school, and her name was Amanda, and I had a crush on her, and she liked Emily Dickinson poetry.
Zum Beispiel kann ich das Gedicht "Ein gewisses schräges Licht" von Emily Dickinson auswendig aufsagen kann, aber nicht weil ich es für die Schule gelernt habe, sondern weil ich damals in ein Mädchen namens Amanda verknallt war, und sie mochte Emily Dickinsons Gedichte.