Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.
It is not night when I do see your face.
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning. Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.