"Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a……" — Arthur Symons
"Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders."
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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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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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A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too…
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More Birch Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
— Donald Hall
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I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees…
— Sean Bean
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The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
— Paul Muldoon
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do…
— David Richo
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,…
— Edmund Spenser
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In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group…
— Gary Snyder
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many…
— Paul Harding
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If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves…
— Sam Hamill
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Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.
— Ray Davies
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There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with…
— Robert Bridges
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