The collected works of Arthur Symons
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“There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.”
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
“To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.”
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.”
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
Source: Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
“The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
Source: Poems
“All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
Source: Poems
“I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.”
Source: Amoris Victima, 1897: Amoris Victimia -Sic- 1940 0
Source: The symbolist movement in literature
“The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.”
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
“But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.”
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
Source: Poems
“Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.”
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
Source: Poems
Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings
“A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.”
Source: Cities of Italy
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Browning
“Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”
Source: Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935
Source: Poems
Source: The collected works of Arthur Symons
“My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”
Source: Poems
“The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”
Source: The symbolist movement in literature
“I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.”