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adambcqx: On An Air Of Rameau by Arthur Symons + Suite in D Minor, III. Les Soupirs by Jean-Philippe Rameau, played by Steven Devine:

robertsnickc: “The sea is a mirror, not only to the clouds, the sun, the moon & the stars, but to all one’s dreams & speculations. The sea tells us that everything is changing & that nothing ever changes, that tides go out & return, that all existence is a rhythm.” ~ Arthur Symons, 1918

Bijousyntaxique: Arthur Symons, “In a Northern Bay,” Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands (1918)

robertsnickc: “The sea is a mirror, not only to the clouds, the sun, the moon & the stars, but to all one’s dreams & speculations. The sea tells us that everything is changing & that nothing ever changes, that tides go out & return, that all existence is a rhythm.” ~ Arthur Symons, 1918

rk70534: MONTSERRAT Arthur Symons(1865-1945)

EugenioOP_: It Is In Their Eyes That Their Magic Resides. - Arthur Symons

antiquebooksden: FROM TOULOUSE-LATREC TO RODIN, WITH SOME PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS by ARTHUR SYMONS

karo_lotta: Venice by Arthur Symons

nemuri820: “As for living, leave it to your servant.” Villiers de L‘lsle Adam French poet(trans by Arthur Symons) “As for having an affair, leave it to your wife.” anonymous

Joanna333375101: ...............................................................................❤️❤️............. A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. -Arthur Symons

kingkisunshine: "It is in their eyes that their magic resides." - Arthur Symons. AUDIENCE WINNER SUMBUL

maggiepadron43: “It is in their eyes that their magic resides” - Arthur Symons

smalllights: Arthur Symons, "Rain on the Down"

Samuraiko: "Waves of the gentle waters of the healing night, Flow over me with silent peace and golden dark, Wash me of sound, wash me of colour, drown the day; Light the tall golden candles and put out the day." - Arthur Symons, "Night in the Valley" (I use this verse for meditation.)

Elnora07211364: Jacob Symons Gilbert Euphemia Arthur Martha Fay Macaulay

jeffjarvis: "What royalties and religions have been, the newspaper is. It is the idol of the hour, the principality and power of the moment; the average man's Bible, friend, teacher, guide, entertainment, and opiate...." - Arthur Symons, 1902

jeffjarvis: "The newspaper is the plague, or black death, of the modern world. It is an open sewer, running down each side of the street, and displaying the foulness of every day, day by day, morning and evening." - Arthur Symons, 1902

Malia28386385: Jacob Symons Gilbert Euphemia Arthur Martha Fay Macaulay

travmexico: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” Arthur Symons

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NinaAntonia13: 'Your flesh is lilies Grown 'neath a frozen moon, So still is the rapture of your swoon.' (Words: Arthur Symons. 'Louise' by Robert Demarchy, early 19th century)

Anmolka35535631: Arthur Symons Primo Harriman Form challenge operation notice by figure.

greek_herald: Beach, BBQ and picnics with the family. Arthur Antonopoulos and Elly Symons share Aussie Christmas memories and talk about the festive season in Greece.

PoemsOnTheTube: Poem of the Day: A Tune by Arthur Symons

HBENFT: “The sound of water says what I think.” ― Arthur Symons Join HBE Yoga Cruise from Florida to Bahamas Sign up Now:

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HossainNilofar: “Only thoughts of you remain In my heart where they have lain, Perfumed thoughts of you.” ― Arthur Symons Claude Nori, Natacha, Rome, 1990

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Aaron_Symons: Iman photographed by Lord Snowdon in Arthur Mitchell’s dance studio in Harlem, 1984

MCVictorEremita: — Joseph Conrad To Arthur Symons, Aug. 2, 1913

wendy_1_way: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” – Arthur Symons

travmexico: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” Arthur Symons

_jadiiiiii: For the silence of the night Swims around me like a stream, And your eyes have caught the light Of a moon-enchanted dream, And your arms glide round about me, And fade into a dream. -Arthur Symons

1StevieKilner: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” – Arthur Symons

microbius: very Arthur Symons!

JustAdduce: “Here In A Little Lonely Room I Am Master Of Earth and Sea, And The Planets Come To Me.” ~ Arthur Symons.

_ui1422: Night, A grey sky, A ghostly sea, The soft beginning of the rain. Arthur Symons

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AsunCa_3: “The sea is a mirror, not only to the clouds, the sun, the moon & the stars, but to all one’s dreams, to all one’s speculations.The sea tells us that everything is changing and that nothing ever changes, that tides go out and return, that all existence is a rhythm” Arthur Symons

Carlolight: Where shall this self at last find happiness? O Soul, only in nothingness. - Arthur Symons

travmexico: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” Arthur Symons

travmexico: “The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.” Arthur Symons

Rose_Siyaniye: The long September evening dies in mist along the fields and lanes Arthur Symons

iansjasper: Cities by Arthur Symons The last sunset of the year had been stormy ; the whole sky, as I saw it from the Pincio, blazed like a conflagration; fire caught the farthest roofs of Rome, and seemed to sear the edges and outskirts of the city...

tmac_bill: Influence in Victorian Lit 1/2 The flagrant, unacknowledged appropriation of what Pater called "mere matter" that was undertaken by his successors, especially Arthur Symons and Oscar Wilde, has often been misrepresented as a kind of plagiarism.

Karimshahal: Arthur Symons

neilphilipmyth: An aged faun of old red clay Laughs from the grassy bowling-green, Foretelling doubtless some decay Of mortal moments so serene That lead us lightly on our way (Love’s piteous pilgrims have we been!) To this last hour that runs away Dancing to the tambourine. Arthur Symons

eudaemonist: ‘Arthur Symons was talking of some foreign city, carrying in his waistcoat pocket, as it were, the genius loci, anon to be embalmed in Pateresque prose. I forget whether this time it was Rome or Seville or Moscow or what…’ —Max Beerbohm, ‘First Meetings with W.B. Yeats.’

ThePrimerCo: Arthur Symons's poem 'White Heliotrope' is the prequel to YSL's 'Black Opium'

holland_tom: “Before the thought of Cleopatra every man is an Anthony” - Arthur Symons

HarryWatson63: 'Paris’ by Arthur Symons My Paris is a land where twilight days Merge into violent nights of black and gold; Where, it may be, the flower of dawn is cold: Ah, but the gold nights, and the scented ways!

v_rossouw3: "And the wind is the voice of my heart." -- Arthur Symons

CulturalLboro: Reminder: this Friday, join us online to discuss the pains and pleasures of editing Decadent and Aesthetic texts. Featuring the editors of the Jewelled Tortoise series Catherine Maxwell & Stefano Evangelista, plus talks on Arthur Symons, Mathilde Blind, and Michael Field!

VeroniqueChemla: "Esther Kahn" by Arnaud Desplechin. Based on Arthur Symons' short story. Starring Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Frances Barber,Laszlo Szabo,Emmanuelle Devos. "In Victorian England, a young Jewish emigrant dreams of becoming a great actress. An initiatory tale"

pandhmagic: It is in their eyes that their magic reside. - Arthur Symons

JeanineClaar: 5 of 5 stars to The Fool of the World, & Other Poems by Symons Arthur 1865-1945

brooktaverner: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” - Arthur Symons. Dress for wandering among Venetian cobbles this summer, even if you're not, at

AndKnuckles_bot: The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons & Knuckles

joannabeaufoy: until a trailing hand perceives,/ Sudden, the earth again, in the crisp touch of leaves, / And the arresting slender fingers of the grass. (Arthur Symons) Come. On. Summer!

jsief: “The invention of printing helped to destroy literature.” —Arthur Symons

BlatherTunes: “The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.” – Arthur Symons,

faeriesxn: to dream of love, and, waking, to remember you: - dreams (arthur symons)

jafar_mobeen: A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ~ Arthur Symons

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

BoatingOnLI: The wind is rising on the sea, The windy white foam-dancers leap ~ Arthur Symons

Jopolkadot: The long September evening dies in mist along the fields and lanes Arthur Symons Art Photography © Joan Kocak

EugenioOP_: It Is In Their Eyes That Their Magic Resides. - Arthur Symons

WorldsMz: Arthur Symons, 'Giorgione at Castelfranco'

JustAdduce: “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

skydog811: April Midnight by Arthur Symons | Poetry Foundation

ARTSalamode: "Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived." Arthur Symons

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer and poet Arthur Symons (February 28, 1865), author of "Jezebel Mort, and other poems" (1931) et al.

d4doome: Not quite my favourite of the decadent poets (that title goes to Arthur Symons) but Dowson was certainly a great decadent poet.

Isbrand3: Lovely to be teaching STC again. Arthur Symons (1906): ‘The Biographia Literaria is the greatest book of criticism in English, and one of the most annoying books in any language.’

_Art4you: "Suspense" 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. - Arthur Symons

BooksOfNoone: The Hill of Dreams - Arthur Machen London Nights - Arthur Symons

zeest_haq: As a perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me; all things leave me- You remain.. -Arthur Symons

DrMarkDoyle: A small pleasure we're denied in this zoom-zoom age is that of slicing through uncut pages in books and keeping a sharp knife handy for the purpose. This is Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands by Arthur Symons (1919) and sadly not all of the pages are like this.

foxy_ronald: a voice is in my ear, And is the voice my own? the words I say Fall strangely, like a dream, across the day; And the dim sunshine is a dream. How clear, New as the world to lovers’ eyes, appear The men and women passing on their way! (Arthur Symons, "The Absinthe-Drinker")

Eagle_Aerial: “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.” ― Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature Canon EOS R5, RF 70-200 at 200mm 1/200 sec at f/2.8, ISO 800

RWikiquote: All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. -Arthur Symons

Rizzoli_Books: "The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter." —Arthur Symons From "Humphry Repton: Designing the Landscape Garden". On sale now:

MBudha: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” Arthur Symons.

peterdamianent1: Venice - Arthur Symons Water and marble and that silentness Which is not broken by a wheel or hoof; A city like a water-lily, less Seen than reflected, palace wall and roof, In the unfruitful waters motionless, Without one living grass’s green...

si_npg: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arthur Symons, September 22, 1906

VeneziaFC_EN: “A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” — Arthur Symons

morrablibrary: Our library also supports the work of library member Andrew Symons, and his creation of the Arthur Quiller-Couch website: 

iab9208: "The one safeguard for the poet is to say to himself: What I can write in prose I will not allow myself to write in verse, out of mere honour towards my material. The further I can extend my prose, the further back do I set the limits of verse." Arthur Symons

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