Kathy Acker Quotes

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life. When you're young, you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.