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