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Quote by Alice Meynell

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

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Work

This collection brings together a selection of Alice Meynell's poetry, prose, and critical essays, offering a deep insight into her intellectual and artistic pursuits. Meynell's work is celebrated for its wit, elegance, and exploration of complex themes, making this collection a valuable resource for readers interested in the works of this influential figure in the literary world. more

Author

Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell was an English writer born on September 22, 1847, and died on November 27, 1922. Her works encompassed poetry, prose, and criticism, known for their delicate emotion and profound thought. more

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Life Is Violence Conditions Color Broken Waste Red Betrayal Visible Nobility Edited True Colors Colors Of Life

Author:Alice Meynell

“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.”

Men World Soul Eye Moving Expression Messages All Things Window Sight Refuse Rejects Curtains Seeming Eyelids

Author:Alice Meynell

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

Rich Sky Wind Spring Prophet Showers Unseen February Colorless

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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.”

Men Children Littles Doe Eye Feet Surface Naked Sensitive Unexpected Helpless Men Women Unexpected Things