“The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains.” MenWorldSoulEyeMovingExpressionMessagesAll ThingsWindowSightRefuseRejectsCurtainsSeemingEyelids Author:Alice Meynell
“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.” MenChildrenLittlesDoeEyeFeetSurfaceNakedSensitiveUnexpectedHelplessMen WomenUnexpected Things Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“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.” KnowsYearsChildrenEyeYoungSweetSpringSurpriseTheeLeafsVioletYoung Children Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell
“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.” IfsHumansLooksEyeLonelinessCrowdsFamiliarPerpetualHuman Eyes Book:The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays Source: The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays
