Romanticism

Romanticism arose in the late 18th century as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism, celebrating emotion, nature, imagination, and the individual. It shaped literature, music, art, and philosophy across Europe.

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"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."

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Edgar Allan Poe· b. 1872View quote →

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Edgar Allan Poe

🇺🇸Edgar Allan Poe

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

🇺🇸William Blake

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

🇺🇸Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."

"Many have original minds who do not think it — they are led away by custom — Now it appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own citadel."

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

🇺🇸John Williams

🇫🇷George Sand

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

🇬🇧Thomas Hardy

"She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance except, perhaps, fair play."

🇫🇷Heinrich Heine

"If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses."

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

🇺🇸Lord Byron

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

Friedrich Schlegel

Friedrich Schlegel

"Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom."

🇺🇸Leo Damrosch

"The heart of Rousseau's thinking, as Arthur Melzer and others have shown, is to honor modern individualism but at the same time to subject it to a devastating critique."

Eugène Delacroix

🇫🇷Eugène Delacroix

"Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume."

J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

"Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed."

Alfred de Vigny

🇫🇷Alfred de Vigny

"Selected works of Alfred de Vigny in French"

William Cowper

"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

Salvatore Garau

🇮🇹Salvatore Garau

Gustave Courbet

🇫🇷Gustave Courbet

"I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

🇺🇸Sergei Rachmaninoff

"I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me."

🇪🇸Francisco Goya

"No recognition / Nadie se conoce' The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself."

Herman Melville

🇺🇸Herman Melville

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"You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in."

Novalis

"Fate and temperament are the names of a concept."

🇺🇸Harold Bloom

"Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates."

Théophile Gautier

🇫🇷Théophile Gautier

"The second romantics are true seers: Th. Gautier, Lec. de Lisle, Th. de Banville. But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead."

"That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane."

🇬🇧Samuel Palmer

"I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching."

Mikhail Lermontov

🇷🇺Mikhail Lermontov

"Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing."

🇵🇱Antoni Lange

"There live Christ and Nero in our hearts."

John Williams

🇺🇸John Williams

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories."

Taras Shevchenko

🇷🇺Taras Shevchenko

🇫🇷Jules_Michelet

"The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality."

Alphonse de Lamartine

🇫🇷Alphonse de Lamartine

"I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night."

🇬🇧Rigby Graham

"I am just an ordinary bloke, I draw lines around things and fill them in."

"Ludwig Tieck's Works at German Wikisource"

Alfred de Musset

🇫🇷Alfred de Musset

Richard Rodney Bennett

🇬🇧Richard Rodney Bennett

Adam Mickiewicz

🇵🇱Adam Mickiewicz

Notable Quotes

"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."

— William BlakeView →

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

— Edgar Allan Poe, b. 1872View →

"And we are put on earth a little space,That we may learn to bear the beams of love,And these black bodies and this sunburnt faceIs but a cloud, and like a shady grove."

— William BlakeView →

"If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky."

— Edgar Allan Poe, b. 1872View →

"Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute."

— Edgar Allan Poe, b. 1872View →

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