Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
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H.l. Mencken
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
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Bauvard
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
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Susan Neiman
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
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Toba Beta
More Quotes By Allen Tate
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
Men expect too much do too little.
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
