Alice Meynell Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Elderly, Example

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Childhood”

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• Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

  Alice Meynell

  Change, Childhood, Mystery

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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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• Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

  Alice Meynell

  Journey, Men, World

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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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• Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Taken, Civilization

  Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.25, Alice Meynell

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• If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.

  Alice Meynell

  Life Is, Ifs

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

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• Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

  Alice Meynell

  Art, Laughter, Would Be

  Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”

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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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• Solitude is separate experience.

  Alice Meynell

  Solitude

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

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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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• The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

  Alice Meynell

  Clouds, Light, Shining

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, 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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• 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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• 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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• It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

  Alice Meynell

  Fashion, Strong, Stupid

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• ... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

  Alice Meynell

  Dark, Black, Fairs

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

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
  Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
  And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
  A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
  Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
  A mystic child is set in these still hours.
  I keep this time, even before the flowers,
  Sacred to all the young and the unborn.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Spring, Flower

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

  Alice Meynell

  Light, Sound, Bishops

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, 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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• O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

  Alice Meynell

  Simple, Looks, Sides

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

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

  Alice Meynell

  Spring, Wind, Sky

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

  Alice Meynell

  Party, Rights, Blood

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