Romantic Poet Quotes:

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Art, Inspiration Love, Love Poems

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Summer, Too Short, Lease, Love Poems, Spring May

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 18

topic: Summer, Spring, Wind, Love Poems, Spring May

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 18

topic: Summer, Art, Wind, Love Poems, Summer Love

The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

- Brian D. McLaren

topic: Church, Visionaries, Brilliant, Romantic Poet

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

topic: Art, Writing, Ephemeral, Platonic, Romantic Poet

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

- Jane Campion

topic: Mean, Journey, Poet, Shelley, Romantic Poet

Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

- Kenneth Minogue

topic: Book, Two, Medicine, Theodore, Romantic Poet

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

- John Dufresne

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Writing Poems, Romantic Poet