All Arthur Symons Quotes
- As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave… All
- 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… Bird
- It is in their eyes that their magic resides. Cat
- Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. Earth
- Night, a more perfect day. Day
- Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion,… Annihilating
- A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. Faithfulness
- 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. Birch
- Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived. Art
- And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend! All
- He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect… Beauty
- My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring. Cloudy
- A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation. Direct
- The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world. Full
- I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found. Dream
- There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything. Act
- Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire. Aspire
- To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us? Been
- Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move. Doings
- But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves. Been
- Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another… Able