The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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.
The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
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