A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur SymonsBut we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
Arthur SymonsI had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.
Arthur SymonsVaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.
Arthur Symons