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

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Source : Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

Arthur Symons

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“The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.”
“Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?”
“What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.”
“The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.”
“No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
“Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude.”
“A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.”
“Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.”

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