It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain…

— Camille Paglia

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are…

— Ivan Turgenev

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on…

— George Edward Woodberry

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of…

— Daniel Radcliffe

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let…

— Margaret Atwood

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old…

— Christopher Lee

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to…

— Thomas Hughes

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its…

— Robert Hass

“That which elevates the Christian to an essential superiority over the non-Christian is therefore not a higher level of morality as such. The decisive…

— Leo Baeck

Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other,…

— Yao Ming

“Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to…

— Charles Yost

“On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never.”

— Deepak Rana

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't…

— John Lennon

Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of…

— Jim James