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Night, a more perfect day.
— Arthur Symons
But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
— Arthur Symons
I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.
— Arthur Symons
The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.
— Arthur Symons
I had had my dreams of Venice. But nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.
— Arthur Symons
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
— Arthur Symons
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
My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
— Arthur Symons
God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.
— Arthur Symons
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
— Arthur Symons
Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.
— Arthur Symons
To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?
— Arthur Symons
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
— Arthur Symons
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
Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.
— Arthur Symons
Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.
— Arthur Symons
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
It is in their eyes that their magic resides.
— Arthur Symons
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.
— Arthur Symons
Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.
— Arthur Symons
A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.
— Arthur Symons
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.
— Arthur Symons
I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
— Arthur Symons
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
— Arthur Symons