"She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep."

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Source : Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

Alice Meynell

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“The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.”
“In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.”
“I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.”
“The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.”
“Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.”
“We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.”
“Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.”
“Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.”

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