But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.