Quotes About Romantic Poets

#1. It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

Jane Campion

#2. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

Kenneth Minogue

#3. I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Sebastian Faulks

#4. Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

John Dufresne

#5. The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.

Arthur Smith

#6. He looked like how Victorian Romantic poets looked just before the consumption and drug abuse really started to cut it.

Terry Pratchett

#7. when i write of you, my dear
i am holding you
in the most
exquisite
ways.

Sanober Khan

#8. The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

William Cowper

#9. A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.

John Thomas Allen

#10. My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

John Hiatt

#11. I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

Nick Kroll

#12. Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

George Murray

#13. This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

T.E. Lawrence

#14. I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

Peggy Guggenheim

#15. I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

Lena Dunham

#16. It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E. M. Forster

#17. I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.

Sanober Khan

#18. May our twilights mix together
like breath and breathlessness.

Sanober Khan

#19. I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

Martin Freeman

#20. The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Mitch Landrieu

#21. If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour.

Keith Emerson

#22. We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

Maria Montessori