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Pseudo-Romanticism

If lips shall lock,
hands be bolted,
should eyes be closed?
Should souls be soused
in ice, in fire, in electric shivers?

The scintillating intermingling
would linger deep
etched to never cease
like how poetries seal
the bashful emotions,
the reticent desires,
and the feral suffering

Teach me how
to lull your tremors;
what scull your waves
and funnels your vertigo?

Teach me how

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poem by Norman Santos
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The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Preface (1890)
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History makes one admire Napoleon's bloody romanticism just as cartoons make one grow fond of the loathsome mice.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

quote by Arthur Rimbaud
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You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

quote by Charles Bukowski
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

quote by Charles Bukowski
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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

quote by Thomas Mann
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

quote by Dawn Powell
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

quote by Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
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I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

quote by Mariel Hemingway
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