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Arthur Symons - The Symbolist Movement in Literature

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

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

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons
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Born: February 28, 1865
Died: January 22, 1945 (aged 79)
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