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The Symbolist Movement in Literature

Arthur Symons

The Symbolist Movement in Literature

Arthur Symons

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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.”

Arthur Symons

Emmy, st. 6.

“The gipsy tents are on the down,
The gipsy girls are here;
And it's O to be off and away from the town
With a gipsy for my dear!”

Arthur Symons

Gipsy Love, st. 1.

“The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,
Indefinitely desolate;
A sea of lead, a sky of slate;
Already autumn in the air, alas!
One stark monotony of stone,
The long hotel, acutely white,
Against the after-sunset light
Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”

Arthur Symons

Color Studies. At Dieppe (1895).

“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 book The Symbolist Movement in Literature

Gérard de Nerval.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

“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.”

Arthur Symons

The Old Women, st. 1.

“I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.”

Arthur Symons

Love and Sleep, st. 1.

Arthur Symons Quotes about flowers

“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.”

Arthur Symons

Kisses.

“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.”

Arthur Symons

Amends to Nature, st. 1.

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

Arthur Symons book The Symbolist Movement in Literature

Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

Arthur Symons Quotes

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

Arthur Symons book The Symbolist Movement in Literature

Arthur Rimbaud.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

“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

After Love, st. 3 (1892).

“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

Biographia Literaria, introduction (1906).

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

Arthur Symons

Opals (1896).

“I heard the sighing of the reeds
At noontide and at evening,
And some old dream I had forgotten
I seemed to be remembering.”

Arthur Symons

By the Pool of the Third Rosses, st. 4.

“They weave a slow andante as in sleep,
Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;
With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keep
A treachery of silence; infinite.”

Arthur Symons

The Andante of Snakes, st. 1.

“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.”

Arthur Symons

Before the Squall, st. 1.

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

Arthur Symons

The Loom of Dreams, st. 1 (1900).

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

Arthur Symons

In The Stalls , st. 1.

“All art is a form of artifice. For in art there can be no prejudices.”

Arthur Symons

Preface to Silhouettes kindle ebook 2012 ASIN B0082UH208.

“Emmy's exquisite youth and her virginal air,
Eyes and teeth in the flash of a musical smile,
Come to me out of the past, and I see her there
As I saw her once for a while.”

Arthur Symons

Emmy, st. 1.

“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.”

Arthur Symons

An Introduction to the Study of Browning, preface (1906).

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