Quotes of Arthur Symons - somelinesforyou

“ Night, a more perfect day. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ I know the woman has no soul, I knowThe woman has no possibilitiesOf soul or mind or heart, but merely isThe masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so.It is her flesh that I adore; I goThirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss.I know she cannot love: it is not thisMy vanquished heart implores in overthrow… ”

- Arthur Symons

“ The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises,The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. ”

- 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

“ The desert of virginityAches in the hotness of her mouth. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises,The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears,A naked runner lost in a storm of spears. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ The desert of virginityAches in the hotness of her mouth. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears,A naked runner lost in a storm of spears. ”

- 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

“ The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises,The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Knowing so much less than nothing, for we are entrapped in smiling and many-coloured appearances. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Knowing so much less than nothing, for we are entrapped in smiling and many-coloured appearances. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Knowing so much less than nothing, for we are entrapped in smiling and many-coloured appearances. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears,A naked runner lost in a storm of spears. ”

- Arthur Symons

“ The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises,The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. ”

- Arthur Symons
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