Alice Meynell Quotes

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com

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There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

Alice Meynell

Nature, Moon, Apples

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We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Alice Meynell

Sunshine, Clouds, Light

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.277, eBookIt.com

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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

Strong, Travel, Memories

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.226, eBookIt.com

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recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Next Week, Years, Mind

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com

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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Alice Meynell

Nature, Loss, Men

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.267, eBookIt.com

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She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

Alice Meynell

Sleep, White, Sheep

Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

Alice Meynell

Lying, Night, Mind

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If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Alice Meynell

Loneliness, Eye, Looks

Alice Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1899). “The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays”

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Alice Meynell

Children, Years, Infancy Is

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for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.

Alice Meynell

Children, Eye, Men

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

Heart, Blood, Color

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.115, eBookIt.com

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There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

Alice Meynell

Running, Children, Sleep

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.221, eBookIt.com

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From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour.

Alice Meynell

Time, Towers, Bells

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A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Alice Meynell

Wall, Simplicity

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.25, eBookIt.com

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But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

Alice Meynell

Loneliness, Ocean, Sea

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With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

Alice Meynell

Echoes, Bird, Musician

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

Alice Meynell

Pain, Heart, Effort

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O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.

Alice Meynell

Sweet, Children, Spring

Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Alice Meynell

Clouds, Rome, Age

Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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Solitude is separate experience.

Alice Meynell

Solitude

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.219, eBookIt.com

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Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

Alice Meynell

Betrayal, Color, Broken

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Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

Alice Meynell

Spring, Autumn, Clouds

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

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In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Alice Meynell

Years, Heartache, Childhood

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.445, eBookIt.com

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If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.

Alice Meynell

Life, Distance, Men

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com

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Born: September 22, 1847
Died: November 27, 1922
Occupation: Writer
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