"A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"

Childhood, Life, Truth, Observation

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"A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Endurance, Memory, Reflection

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"To abandon the child 'within' means that the adult 'without' will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Childhood, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."

Dragos Bratasanu, Romanian Scientist

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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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Explore more quotes by William Wordsworth

"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

Nature

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

Time

"But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home."

Divinity

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

Identity

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

Life

"Such views the youthful Bard allure,But, heedless of the following gloom,He deems their colours shall endure'Till peace go with him to the tomb.-And let him nurse his fond deceit,And what if he must die in sorrow!Who would not cherish dreams so sweet,Though grief and pain may come tomorrow?"

Idealism

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold."

Nature

"She was a Phantom of delightWhen first she gleam'd upon my sight;A lovely Apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament:Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;But all things else about her drawnFrom May-time and the cheerful dawn;A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay."

Poetry

"I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more."

Inspirational

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

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