{"quotes":[{"text":"I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.","author":"Anzia Yezierska","tags":["being-alone","enjoying-life","enjoying-solitude","enjoying-the-little-things","happily-alone","happiness","hope","nature","positivity","romanticism","solitude"],"id":4945,"author_id":"Anzia+Yezierska"},{"text":"The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.","author":"David Almond","tags":["loss","romanticism"],"id":10780,"author_id":"David+Almond"},{"text":"She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["falling-in-love","falling-in-love","fantasy","heroines","love","love","loving","romance","romantic","romanticism"],"id":13130,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"Romanticism embodied 'a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the forgotten sources of life, a passionate effort at self-assertion both individual and collective, a search after means of expressing an unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals.","author":"Isaiah Berlin","tags":["goal","passion","romanticism","spirit","yearing"],"id":24502,"author_id":"Isaiah+Berlin"},{"text":"Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!","author":"William Dean Howells","tags":["hero","heroism","realism","romanticism"],"id":25647,"author_id":"William+Dean+Howells"},{"text":"I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["imagination","introversion","pretty-prose","quiet","quietness","romanticism","solitude"],"id":29026,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluenced by the real content of our history which we know only in a deep and guarded privacy, we are still in the throes of the paradox of the “gentleman and soldier.” However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["christianity","history","propaganda","racism-in-america","romanticism","slavery","wendell-berry","woundedness"],"id":32637,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.","author":"Leni Riefenstahl","tags":["art","legend","romanticism","style"],"id":42199,"author_id":"Leni+Riefenstahl"},{"text":"What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley","tags":["death","hope","life","love","romantic","romanticism","sublime"],"id":45932,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft+Shelley"},{"text":"I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","amour","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","desire","devotion","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","longing","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","lust","missing-someone","missing-you","nothing-compares","nothing-compares-to-you","paramour","passion","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","romance","romanticism","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":56636,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":82,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}