"A place has almost a shyness of a……" — Arthur Symons
"A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation."
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21 Quotes by Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons has 21 quotes on this site.
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in…
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
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It is in their eyes that their magic resides.
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Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
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Night, a more perfect day.
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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in…
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig…
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Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.
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And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover…
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is…
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My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
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