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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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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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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
(David Elkind (20th century), U.S. child psychologist and author. Parenting Your Teenager in the 90's, ch. 2 (1993).)
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Your Charms in harmless Childhood lay,
Like metals in the mine,
Age from no face took more away,
Than Youth conceal'd in thine.
(Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701), British courtier, poet. The Mulberry Garden (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)
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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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... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
(Edna O'Brien (b. c. 1932), Irish author; relocated to England. Mother Ireland, ch. 7 (1976).)
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deep in the manhood his childhood
so swiftly led to, a small brook rock-leaping
into the rapt, imperious, seagoing river.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923, Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Son.")
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