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Quote by Alice Meynell

“Childhood is but change made gay and visible.”

Quote by Alice Meynell

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

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The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

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

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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

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“There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.”

Children Journey Speech Setting Settings Courageous Cheerful Baggage

Book:The Children

Source: The Children

“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.”

Children Play Hours Taken Civilization Bed Affair Tides Dusk

Book:The Children

Source: The Children

“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.”

Light Sun Shining Clouds Edges Extremes Strikes Giants Revelations Horizon Rays Delicate Handful Spears Foreground

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

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

Events Spring Shadow Clouds Landscape Autumn

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“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

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection