If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Alice Meynell More Quotes by Alice Meynell More Quotes From Alice Meynell Solitude is separate experience. Alice Meynell solitude 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. Alice Meynell betrayal color broken Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud. Alice Meynell autumn clouds spring 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 heartache childhood years 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 distance men life 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 I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear? Alice Meynell bears 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 childhood mystery change Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. Alice Meynell change sake father Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Alice Meynell flower spring children The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. Alice Meynell laughter joy happiness Childhood is but change made gay and visible. Alice Meynell childhood gay made 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. Alice Meynell cheerful journey 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. Alice Meynell taken civilization 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. Alice Meynell shining light clouds 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 bishops light sound 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 elderly example children 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 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 strife endless heart ... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair. Alice Meynell fairs black dark
