Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.
At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.
I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.
I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
I love rains which carry desires to oceans.
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.
I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"
