Yes they are all focuses on emerging ideas of continuity and judgement which may appear early and simultaneously in development? You identified several unique cases of brain development earlier that all occur between ages 3-10. There's a question of how a mind develops at a young age.

I'll have to start reading more poetry. :)

Of course he wrote that in the context of celebrating one's childhood.

@Chris: I like Adonis, he's good too; I was reading his collected works a few days ago and marvelling at his skill with words.

Neruda was equally adept at prose, his memoir is marvellous.

> Can we understand this link between poetic commitment and communist commitment as a simple illusion? An error, or an errancy? An ignorance of the ferocity of states ruled by communist parties? I do not believe so. I wish to argue, on the contrary, that there exists an essential link between poetry and communism, if we understand ‘communism’ closely in its primary sense: the concern for what is common to all.

> A tense, paradoxical, violent love of life in common; the desire that what ought to be common and accessible to all should not be appropriated by the servants of Capital. The poetic desire that the things of life would be like the sky and the earth, like the water of the oceans and the brush res on a summer night – that is to say, would belong by right to the whole world.

"Poetry and Communism", The Age of the Poets (Alain Badiou)

Just to pull an extract, it's really nice -- good find @MoziburUllah

(Not sure what "brush res" is, though.)

@weissman: A friend of mine pointed out verso books and I found this essay there. So I can't take full credit for the find ;). Maybe he means the painters brush? Res means thing in Latin but that doesn't help much here...