Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

I'm an incurable romantic. But I'm not an adrenaline junkie.

I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Poetry is life distilled.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

I am a romantic at heart.

I am the king of old school romance.

My idea of romance is pretty old school.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally. "It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion." "I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.

A poet is a painter of the soul.