Evening Quote by Robin Williams

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

— Franz Grillparzer

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet…

— Alan Moore

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions…

— Anais Nin

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.

— Michael Buble

I love romantic poetry.

— Richard Dawkins

“The essence of romance is an extremely powerful life-giving sensual force for change. I view the romantic periods in our history as cycles of…

— Ayesha Ophelia

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became…

— Frederick C. Beiser

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

— George R. R. Martin

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an…

— May Sarton