"Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name."
Alice Meynell was a British poet, essayist, editor, and critic. She was a notable figure in late Victorian and early twentieth-century literary culture and was considered for Poet Laureate. She died in 1922.