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 More Quotes by Alice Meynell More Quotes From Alice Meynell Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds... Alice Meynell sky spring wind 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. Alice Meynell eye men moving 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. Alice Meynell feet snow men 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 should-have feet O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing? Alice Meynell simple sides looks Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. Alice Meynell laughter would-be art If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Alice Meynell ifs life-is In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed.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 Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. Alice Meynell man childhood mystery change The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. Alice Meynell red color heart life
