Alice Meynell

"The quality of poetry is not strained. It has not to abide our repeated questions. It tests and is not tested. Every true lover of poetry knows that when he cites great lines it is not the poetry but …"

"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…"

"Surely there is but one assumption wherewith nearly all thinkers have done their work—that is, the confession of the moral law: that there is a good, and that pure cruelty, mere hatred, and ingratitud…"

"I make the whole world answer to my art."

"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. But man should no longer di…"

"hat is now and then attempted is perhaps "for art's sake." He that saveth his art shall lose it."

"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 b…"

"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 back—it is already so far."