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The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

Arthur Symons

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Arthur Symons
Age: 79 †
Born: 1865
Born: February 28
Died: 1945
Died: January 22
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The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolateA sea of lead, a sky of slateAlready autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.
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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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The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.
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Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
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The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
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I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.
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But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
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I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.
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