42 Quotes by Arthur Symons

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

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?