209 Quotes About Romanticism

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering

Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence.

We thought it was dropsof dew and kissedcold tears from the crossgrass.

And aye, beside her stalks her amarous knight!Still on his thighs their wonted brogues are worn,And thro' those brogues, still tatter'd and betorn,His hindward charms glean an unearthly white,Ah! thus thro' broken clouds at night's high NoonPeeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon!

The Beauty drew near and the Youth heard her softly ringing, clear voice, every sound of which rent his heart with a sweet pain, "Dear Youth, do you know the price of my love?""Let it be the price of life!" exclaimed the Youth, "Let it lead even to the dark gates of death."("The Poison Garden")

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for women, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows sometimes we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

They are not allowed to have any part of you...your time, your attention. All of it which belongs rightfully to someone else.

That which elevates the Christian to an essential superiority over the non-Christian is therefore not a higher level of morality as such. The decisive difference is to be found in baptism, where the miracle becomes effective. The sacrament gives everything and leads to everything. The preaching of Paul proclaims, not a new ethic, but a new salvation, a miracle which creates immortal men.

I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might entail privation and suffering.