I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.” — Evan Meekins 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
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
“The essence of romance is an extremely powerful life-giving sensual force for change. I view the romantic periods in our history as… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another… — Glen Cook 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
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the… — Zach Galifianakis 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
I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and… — Kakuzo Okakura Copy Share Image
“Oliver liked to keep the windows and shutters wide open in the afternoon, with just the swelling sheer curtains between us and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The very concept of trying to “teach” a lover things feels patronizing, incongruous, and plain sinister. If we truly loved someone, there… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity.… — George Santayana 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
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
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a… — Philippe Starck 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“There's a certain romanticism that comes with being young. Young men and women just released from high school are ready to take… — Ryan Smithson Copy Share Image
Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
