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.
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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
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.
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The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
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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.
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Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
Arthur Symons
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons
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