U.A. FanthorpeBut he never forgot how once by not knowing time, He escaped into the clockless land of ever, Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born.
About This Quote
The narrator, an old man, recalls a time when he was a child and his father taught him how to escape from the constrictions of time. In this poem, the narrator recalls how as a child he watched the passage of time slowly going by without being aware of it. The narrator’s father taught him that if you don’t know that time is passing, you can pretend that you are timeless. This led to a free-range, carefree existence where no one knew what time it was.
Source: New And Collected Poems
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