[F]or man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitiv… - Alice Meynell

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[F]or 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.[…] How weak it is may be seen from a footprint: for nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.

Alice Meynell

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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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[S]he used her intellect, and that action is the vitality of all poetry that is not song only, but poetry and song.

Round the blue sea I love the best The argent foam played, slender, fleet;
I saw—past Wordsworth and the rest— Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.

For you knew not it was I,
And I knew not it was you.
We have learnt, as days went by.
But a flower struck root and grew
Underground, and no one knew.

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