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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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  Love, Crush, Song

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.

  Arthur Symons

  Flower, Wings, Half

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

  Arthur Symons

  Life Is Like, Enchantment, Rage

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.38, Psychology Press

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• Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

  Arthur Symons

  Moving, Doings

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

  Arthur Symons

  Desert, Mouths, Ache

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

  Arthur Symons

  Soul, Opal, Cloudy

  Arthur Symons (1909). “Poems”

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

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  Work, Certain

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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.

  Arthur Symons

  Passion, Criticism, Lovers

  Introduction by Arthur Symons to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's book "Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions" (1817), 1906.

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• I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.

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  Sleep, Sorrow, Made

  Arthur Symons (1984). “Amoris Victima, 1897: Amoris Victimia -Sic- 1940 0”, Taylor & Francis

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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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  Sleep, Wind, Sea

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

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  Dream, Evening, Remember

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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

  Arthur Symons

  World, Speak, Mystic

  Arthur Symons (1958). “The symbolist movement in literature”

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• Night, a more perfect day.

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  Night, Perfect Days, Perfect

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

  Arthur Symons

  Travel, Secret, Stranger

  "Cities of Italy".

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