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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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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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With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

Alice Meynell

Echoes, Bird, Musician

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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Childhood is but change made gay and visible.

Alice Meynell

Gay, Childhood, Made

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.81, 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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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.

Alice Meynell

Sweet, Children, Spring

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

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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.

Alice Meynell

Flower, Feet, Should Have

Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.451, 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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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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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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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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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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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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The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

Alice Meynell

Heart, Strife, Endless

Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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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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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Alice Meynell

Clouds, Rome, Age

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Born: September 22, 1847
Died: November 27, 1922
Occupation: Writer
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