“I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.” — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
“M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and… — David Downie Copy Share Image
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine reports that all the women he's polled have been enthusiastic advocates of the bold romantic gesture, but this,… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.” — Pessoa Fernando Copy Share Image
“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A better-constituted boy would certainly have profited under my intelligent tutors, with their scientific apparatus; and would, doubtless, have found the phenomena… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs… — Warren Eyster Copy Share Image
Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Just dealing with flaws, looking into your eyes, and feeling the lip-gloss of your smile, Jenny.” — Akshat Pathak Copy Share Image
“The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.” — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I loved the masculine style of dressing of Katharine Hepburn, who came from the same town that I came from. I was… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Depending on which flavor of academic scholarship you prefer, that age had its roots in the Renaissance or Mannerist periods in Germany,… — David Downie Copy Share Image
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics! — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
