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Top 30 Arthur Symons Quotes (2025 Update)

Arthur Symons Quote: “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!”

1. “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

Arthur Symons Quote: “It is in their eyes that their magic resides.”

2. “It is in their eyes that their magic resides.”

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

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

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Arthur Symons Quote: “I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.”

4. “I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.”

5. “Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.”

6. “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

Arthur Symons Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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

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

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Arthur Symons Quote: “My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”

10. “My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Night, a more perfect day.”

11. “Night, a more perfect day.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”

12. “Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Arthur Symons Quote: “The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.”

15. “The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.”

16. “The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.”

— Arthur Symons

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

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

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Arthur Symons Quote: “The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”

18. “The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.”

19. “God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “The making of one’s life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.”

20. “The making of one’s life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.”

21. “Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”

22. “Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.”

23. “But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.”

24. “A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.”

— Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons Quote: “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.”

25. “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

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

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

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.”

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

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Arthur Symons Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Arthur Symons Quote: “Before the thought of Cleopatra every man is an Antony.”

29. “Before the thought of Cleopatra every man is an Antony.”

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Arthur Symons Quote: “Love I never associated with the senses, it was not even passion that I wanted; it was a conscious, subtle, elaborate sensuality, which I knew not how to procure.”

30. “Love I never associated with the senses, it was not even passion that I wanted; it was a conscious, subtle, elaborate sensuality, which I knew not how to procure.”

— Arthur Symons

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