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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. "A Sketch of the Past," Moments of Being (written 1939-1940), ed. Jeanne Schulkind (1976).)
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Childhood remembrances are always a drag
if you're Black
(Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. Nikki-Rosa (l. 1-2). . .
Modern Poems; an Introduction to Poetry. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (1976) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
(Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet and critic. repr. In Selected Criticism: Poetry and Prose (1955). "Childhood's False Eden," (1940).
Referring to Katherine Mansfield.)
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The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.
(Marguerite Kelly (20th century), U.S. author. The Mothers Almanac II ... Your Child From Six to Twelve, part I (1989).)
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'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. Macbeth (II, ii). . .
The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.)
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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
(Peter Handke (b. 1942), Austrian author, playwright, poet. Independent (London, June 9, 1988).)
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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
(Louise J. Kaplan (20th century), U.S. psychologist. Adolescence, ch. 3 (1984).)
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sullen fun
Savage as childhood's thin harmonious tear:
O fountain, bosom source undying-dead
Replenish me the spring of love and fear
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet. The Swimmers (l. 6-9). . .
Collected Poems, 1919-1976 [Allen Tate]. (1989) Louisiana State University Press.)
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