209 Quotes About Romanticism

Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.

Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither; I am instead a Romantic.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?

Why, then, is everything on earth good except human beings? Why should they alone become different than they are?

Romanticism requires bravery and risk.