“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.” IfsMenLifeYearsMindDoeLastsLife IsSufferingNextKnownPathWeekDistanceLast YearNeverthelessNext YearOrbitNext WeekVelocityRecurrencePeriodicity Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“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.” YearsChildhoodHigherEveningHeartacheSensibilityApril 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
“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.” YearsMindDoeMatterLastsSufferingNextWeekEventsDependsTidesLast YearNext YearUps & DownsNext WeekRecurrence Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“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.” YearsChildrenLongSeemsTraditionMereInfancyInfancy Is Author:Alice Meynell
