Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.
We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [. . . ] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good. . . In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.
I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of a heaviness to my soul because of the intensity of my job.
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.