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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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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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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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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
(Henri-Frédéric Amiel (20th century), Swiss poet, philosopher.)
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We linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they are half forgotten ere we have learned the language.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 406, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 263, AMS Press (1990).)
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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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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
(Graham Greene (1901-1994), British author. The Power and the Glory, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940).)
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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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