Romantic Poetry Quotes

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  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• 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

  Summer, Art, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

  e. e. cummings

  Moon, Sun, Great Poetry

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

  Elvis Costello

  Animal, Instinct, Novel

  "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I love romantic poetry.

  Richard Dawkins

  Romantic Love

  "Darwin's child" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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• Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?

  Randall Jarrell

  Past, Wish, Transition

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "A Note on Poetry" (p. 48), 1980.

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• Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

  Alan Moore

  Kicking It, People, Trying

  "Alan Moore Takes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the ’60s". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

  Timothy Leary

  Emotional, Years, Fiction

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• I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Use, World, Great Writers

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