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Alice Meynell Quotes about Children

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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.

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
Children, Journey, Cheerful
Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.6, Alice Meynell

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
Children, Taken, Civilization
Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.25, Alice Meynell

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

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

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”

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

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

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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