Distribution Quote by Cyril Connolly

“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could…

— Jane Austen

“Here you are, obsessed with romantic language-a language invented for expression between lovers-and you use it to spread animosity.”

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“Romanticism valued individual voices, including those of women and "common people." They tended to idealize the pastoral lives of farmers, shepherds, milkmaids, and other…

— Mary Shelley

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

— Charles Williams

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

— Ronald D. Moore

“Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain aspects of our behavior and tendencies while seeking to eliminate those that might…

— Christopher Ryan

“Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction…

— Robert Radcliffe

“It is the nature of the idea to be communicated, written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass it craves light, likes crowds, thrives…

— Ursula Le Guin

Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the…

— Sally Rooney