18 ordspråk av Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell
 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. |
| Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep. |
| Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind |
| I come from nothing: but from where/ come the undying thoughts I bear? |
| I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song. |
| If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. |
| It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. |
| 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. |
| Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. |
| Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. |
| Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. |
| 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. |
| She walks - the lady of my delight - / A shepherdess of sheep. |
| She walks - the lady of my delight - / A shepherdess of sheep. |
| Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. |
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