Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I believe in love at first sight… But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“A wonderful man like you is hard to find, That's why I find it so hard to let you go. I just… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Aaron snorted "That's so cheesy." "Well yeah. I am cheesy. I'm the king of cheese. You should know that by now. Aaron's… — Cleon Lee Copy Share Image
“We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever.… — Eric Van Lustbader 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
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
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What we see in Penny’s writings then is what Paul de Man calls the rhetoric of Romanticism. An attempt to neutralise all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire… — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
“The gallery context of Scotch Myths puts the objects on display in an interrogatory framework in a way that their presence in… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“This development is possibly related to the fact that so much of "value" has been absorbed by technology itself. It is "good"… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Traffic slowed as they entered Fort Washakie with everyone rubbernecking the spirited powwow taking place in an empty field just off the… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend… — Germaine Greer 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
“You have attempted to tinge detection with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an… — Stephen Fry - introductions Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dipping my bare brush into your garish gold eyes, I draw your dreams close. They dance divinely within, sparking silhouettes alight. (Harboured… — Susan L. Marshall 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
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his… — Charles Yost Copy Share Image
“If vampires were so passionate and depicted as sexy beasts because they fed on life force, why were zombies not depicted as… — Mur Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an… — Max Gallo Copy Share Image
“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image