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)

“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)