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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Quoted in Dramatic Review (London, May 23, 1885).)
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Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Romance (l. 1-2). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Romance is everything.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Originally published by Payson & Clark (1928). "Advertisement," Useful Knowledge, Station Hill Press (1988).)
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Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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Nothing was explained, and yet there was no romance.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. A Passage to India, pt. II, ch. 14 (1924).)
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They are preparing to begin again:
Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
In a predicated romance.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Task.")
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... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
(Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), U.S. novelist. The Woman Within, ch. 9 (1954).
Written in 1944. She was recalling her early infatuation with the idea of having a literary career.)
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He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.
(Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. Miniver Cheevy (l. 15-16). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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