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But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought. D'Artagnan
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Is it nonsense or brilliance? Wrote Virginia Woolf in the margin of her own manuscript.
Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck
“It was like that for Shakespeare and Balzac and Tolstoy, at least. The classic images they created were born from their mental wombs. But today’s practitioners of literature have lost that creativity. Their minds give birth only to shattered fragments and freaks, whose brief lives are nothing but cryptic spasms devoid of reason. Then they sweep up
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
A natural outgrowth of the romantic’s interest in emotional states—the primacy of the subjective experience over objective truth—was the movement’s attraction to the nostalgic and the uncanny.