Quotes About Romanticism

El heroísmo es una ocupación mal remunerada, que a menudo conduce a un fin prematuro, por eso atrae a personas fanáticas o con una malsana fascinación por la muerte. Existen muy pocos héroes de corazón romántico y de sangre liviana.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

TB [tuberculosis] was a disease in the service of a romantic view of the world. Cancer is now in the service of a simplistic view of the world that can turn paranoid.

Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.

What," asked Julian without preamble, "did Trelawny snatch from the funeral pyre at Viareggio?" The go-between replied, "Shelley's heart.

the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10

Boy's Room" A friend saw the rooms Of Keats and Shelley At the lake, and saw 'they were just Boys' rooms' and was moved By that. And indeed a poet's room Is a boy's room And I suppose that women know it. Perhaps the unbeautiful banker Is exciting to a woman, a man Not a boy gasping For breath over a girl's body

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.

Sturm und Drang

There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Remembering those days always aroused a mixture of emotions in her—something akin to, but not quite, nostalgia. Nostalgia was often romanticized; with these memories, there was no reason to make them any more romantic than they already were. Nor did she share these memories with others. They were hers, and over the years, she'd come to view them as a sort of museum exhibit, one in which she was both the curator and the only patron.

You guys had a good run. You can't expect her to lose her sense of judgment forever. You know, Theo, every now and then Eraserhead will hook up with Tinker Bell, or Sling Blade Carl will marry Lara Croft—that sort of thing gives us hope—but you can't count on it. You can't bet that way. Why, guys like us would always be alone if some women didn't have a deep-seated streak of self-destruction, isn't that right, Professor?

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Romanticism, so often ill-defined, is only ... liberalism in literature.

The doorkeeper of the Norfolk Club was a man by the name of Cartiledge. As a youth, his heart had been romantic, his head had been poetic and his political affiliations had been conservative to an extreme. He hadn't planned on a life of holding the door open for the aristocracy, and years of bowing to nobility had given him a sense both of what Karl Marx had been on about, and of profound, world-weary depression. Nothing interesting happened at the Norfolk Club.

of Shelley's masterpiece was not vague,

When even the bartenders lose their romantic notions, it's time for a better world.

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

It goes without saying that the artists sympathized not with the actual working classes, but with their own idea of the working classes, rather as Marie Antoinette wished to live not as a real shepherdess but as her romanticized conception of a shepherdess.

Perhaps the book's greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.