Marguerite Young Quotes

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

I never played with anything like toys.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

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

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.