Romantic Movement

Famous quotes containing the words romantic movement, romantic and/or movement:

    “The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Mon Dieu, hear the poet’s prayer.
    The romantic should be here.
    The romantic should be there.
    It ought to be everywhere.
    But the romantic must never remain.
    Mon Dieu, and must never again return.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)