The Ghosts of Innocence
Loretta Lux (b. 1969) - Girl with Marbles, 2005
I use children as a metaphor for a lost paradise.
I use children as a metaphor for a lost paradise.
Loretta Lux
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
Lewis Carroll
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections in the next.
Cesare Pavese
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
George Eliot
