Alice Meynell Quotes

English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist (1847–1922)

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Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Alternative Names: Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell • Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson

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In the case of the woman's figure it is the foot, with its extreme proportional smallness, that gives the precious instability, the spring and balance that are so organic.

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

I wish it were not customary to write of one art in the terms of another, and I use the words "music" and "musical" under protest, because the world has been so delighted to call any verse pleasant to the ear "musical," that it has not supplied us with another and more specialised and appropriate word.

A poet of one mood in all my lays, Ranging all life to sing my only love, Like a west wind across the world I move,
Sweeping my harp of floods mine own wild way.