Quote #138095
Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks.
Dr. SunWolf
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Interpretation
The line playfully argues that creativity is not a childish luxury but a human need that many adults have let atrophy. By calling crayons “magical dream sticks,” the speaker reframes a humble tool as a conduit to imagination, spontaneity, and nonverbal expression. The word “impoverished” suggests a kind of emotional or imaginative deprivation—adulthood can narrow acceptable forms of play, experimentation, and mess-making. The imperative “Give crayons” reads like a small manifesto: restore simple, tactile creative practices to adult life as an antidote to rigidity, stress, and over-intellectualization.



