209 Quotes About Romanticism

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization.

Seguiu pelo ermo areial até aos negros penhascos, e parou, debruçando-se no precipicio, onde as alterosas e phosphorescentes vagas se debatiam convulsas, partindo-se em niveos jorros, golfando a resaca em furia jactos de espuma na areia com um sussurro formidavel.O oceano e o vento pareciam unir-se, gemendo n'um lamento inconsolavel - o lamento de tudo que soffre na terra sem poder queixar-se. (pp. 204-205)

Los invisibles átomos del aireen derredor palpitan y se inflaman,el cielo se deshace en rayos de oro,la tierra se estremece alborozada.Oigo flotando en olas de armonías,rumor de besos y batir de alas;mis párpados se cierran... ¿Qué sucede?¿Dime?¡Silencio! ¡Es el amor que pasa!

M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life.

Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career—no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to.

[W]ithin me, the longing is always new and vivid to express my life in an enduring form, in a figure that would be worthy of joining the most excellent, greeting them and being in community with them. Yes, I have always lusted after this community[.]

Or is this all but obsolete romantic rot, Cincinnatus?

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

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.