Arthur Symons — a remark

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“The supreme aim of art is to make us feel more intensely the beauty of life.”

The wording is widely circulated under Symons’s name, but the primary source is difficult to verify · Essay, commonly attributed

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Arthur Symons

28 February 1865–22 January 1945

Arthur Symons was born on 28 February 1865 at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, into a household shaped by religious discipline, frequent movement, and intellectual aspiration. He was the son of the Reverend Arthur Symons, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Mary Ann Symons. His father’s ministry required the family…

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