Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons, was a British poet, critic and magazine editor...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 February 1865
venice saws realist
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
spring earth noise
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.
dream art passion
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, art.
love crush brain
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 me: all things leave me: You remain.
london canvas subtle
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
beauty perfect style
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.
soul opal cloudy
My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
travel secret stranger
A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.
world speak mystic
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
dream venice impossible
I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.
love ends stoops
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!
art men wish
Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.
dream fate light
There is not a dream which may not come true, if we have the energy which makes, or chooses, our own fate.... It is only the dreams of those light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true.
discovery criticism treasure
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.