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Arthur Symons
21 quotes
“All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Silhouettes kindle ebook 2012 ASIN B0082UH208.
“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!”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After Love, st. 3 (1892).
“The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas! One stark monotony of stone, The long hotel, acutely white, Against the after-sunset light Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Color Studies. At Dieppe (1895).
“My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opals (1896).
“Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loom of Dreams, st. 1 (1900).
“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.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Introduction to the Study of Browning, preface (1906).
“What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Biographia Literaria, introduction (1906).
“I have loved colours, and not flowers; Their motion, not the swallows wings; And wasted more than half my hours Without the comradeship of things.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I heard the sighing of the reeds At noontide and at evening, And some old dream I had forgotten I seemed to be remembering.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They weave a slow andante as in sleep, Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white; With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keep A treachery of silence; infinite.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The gipsy tents are on the down, The gipsy girls are here; And it's O to be off and away from the town With a gipsy for my dear!”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of rage, Chained by enchantment to my stall, I see myself upon the stage Dance to amuse a music-hall.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Emmy's exquisite youth and her virginal air, Eyes and teeth in the flash of a musical smile, Come to me out of the past, and I see her there As I saw her once for a while.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O my child, who wronged you first, and began First the dance of death that you dance so well? Soul for soul: and I think the soul of a man Shall answer for yours in hell.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wind is rising on the sea, The windy white foam-dancers leap; And the sea moans uneasily, And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have laid sorrow to sleep; Love sleeps. She who oft made me weep Now weeps.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They pass upon their old, tremulous feet, Creeping with little satchels down the street, And they remember, many years ago, Passing that way in silks. They wander, slow And solitary, through the city ways, And they alone remember those old days Men have forgotten.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 explicitness is not a necessary virtue.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source