Skip to content

Quotes from The Symbolist Movement in Literature — Arthur Symons

1865–1945 Wales

← All quotes by Arthur Symons

3 quotes

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

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

The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

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.

The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Symons (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.