~ Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. ~
~ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~
~ What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. ~
~ Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. ~
~ The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence ~
~ Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved ~
~ Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. ~
~ So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition ~
~ Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. ~
~ The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. ~
~ Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. ~
~ I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. ~