Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one c...ountry to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even assuming the possibility of greater knowledge among responsive young children of a mass media age, it is questionable whether... an increase in verbal knowledge and expression has much effect on the capacity for understanding in depth or on the style of behavior of children with no more than five years of living and growing behind them.... The drawings of contemporary fives are no more complex, the capacity for judgment no sharper, the feelings of helplessness when they get sick or into trouble no less painful than they have ever been, as far as we know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adults understandably assume that the level of verbal proficiency a five-year-old displays represents his level of proficiency in ...all areas of functioning--if he talks like an adult, he must think and feel like one. However, five-year-olds,... belie the promise of adult-like behavior with their child-like, impulsive actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-child ...relationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away... From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. Ther...e was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And tried to hear your voice, but all I heard Was a boat's whistle, and the scraping squeal... Of seabird's voices far away, and bells, Five bells. Five bells coldly ringing out. Five bells.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My one and noble heart has witnesses In all love's countries, that will watch awake;... And when blind sleep falls on the spying senses, The heart is sensual, though five eyes break.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »