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O my child, who wronged you first, and began
First the dance of death that you dance so well?
Soul for soul: and I think the soul of a man
Shall answer for yours in hell.
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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.
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I have loved colours, and not flowers;
Their motion, not the swallows wings;
And wasted more than half my hours
Without the comradeship of things.
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But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
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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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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.
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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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They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,
Creeping with little satchels down the street,
And they remember, many years ago,
Passing that way in silks. They wander, slow
And solitary, through the city ways,
And they alone remember those old days
Men have forgotten.
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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.
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All art is a form of artifice. For in art there can be no prejudices.
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Arthur Symons
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Born:
February 28, 1865
Died:
January 22, 1945
(aged 79)
Bio:
Arthur William Symons was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.
Known for:
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Introduction to the Study of Browning (1886)
Spiritual Adventures (1905)
Figures of Several Centuries (1898)
Images of good and evil (1899)
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