Quotes About Innocence

There wasn't a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn't need anyone.

Like a child, always enjoy the world.

Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life!

In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower.

In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower who can smile, laugh, giggle, dance, love and sing with mother earth.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear on good days…

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

Purity is defined by the clearness of the stars

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

Pure is honourable.

Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

Think of what is pure.

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.