"Sweet, can I sing you the song of……" — 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 bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses."
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Arthur Symons
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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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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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A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too…
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
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