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#romantics

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All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.


Richard Kadrey


#losers #richard-kadrey #romantics #spyder-lee #romantic

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.


Nigel Kennedy


#bach #because #brahms #chopin #composer

But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song.


G.K. Chesterton


#miracles #monotony #romantics #change

– I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#romantics #romantic

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#classics #drama #faust #faust-legend #faustian

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.


Mason Cooley


#common sense #consider #romantics #sense #vulgar

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.


Maurice Chevalier


#difference #experience #feel #forty #french

To say goodbye is to die a little.


Raymond Chandler


#life #parting #romantics #change

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.


Neville Marriner


#even #instruments #late #more #most

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.


Andrew Motion


#admire #connect #general #i #keats






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