Strangers Secret Quotes by Arthur Symons

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

— Arthur Symons

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a…

— Arthur Symons

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

— Arthur Symons

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

— Arthur Symons

I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The…

— Arthur Symons

God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

— Arthur Symons

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

— Arthur Symons

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

— Arthur Symons

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

— Arthur Symons

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

— Arthur Symons

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds…

— Arthur Symons

Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a…

— Arthur Symons

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

— Arthur Symons

A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.

— Arthur Symons

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

— Arthur Symons