"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."

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

Alice Meynell

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“Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.”
“Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.”

Source : Adele Griffin (2008). “My Almost Epic Summer”, p.15, Penguin
“Age is not important in relationship”
“I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.”
“I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.”

Source : "French Made: Interview With Mélanie Laurent". Interview with Katya Foreman, wwd.com. May 27, 2009.
“No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.”
“People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!”
“The president has a big stick.”

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