Romance

Romance is the pleasurable feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person. Historically, the term "romance" originates with the medieval ideal of chivalry as set out in its Romance literature.

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• Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
  But only give a bust of marriages:
  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.
  There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
  Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
  He would have written sonnets all his life?
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 8.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 676.

• Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
  Auspicious queen of childish joys,
  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,
  Thy votive train of girls and boys.
  • Lord Byron, To Romance.

• He loved the twilight that surrounds
  The border-land of old romance;
  Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,
  And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,
  And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,
  And mighty warriors sweep along,
  Magnified by the purple mist,
  The dusk of centuries and of song.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prelude to Tales of a Wayside Inn, Part V, line 130.

• Romance is the poetry of literature.
  • Madame Necker.

• Lady of the Mere,
  Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
  • William Wordsworth, A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags.