Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
Alan Moore
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean Penn
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
Leslie Caron
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Douglas Horton
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
Helen Fisher
Alan Moore
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean Penn
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
Leslie Caron
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Douglas Horton
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
Helen Fisher