#romantics

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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#even #instruments #late #more #most

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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#admire #connect #general #i #keats