Conflicted Romantic Infidelity

Famous quotes containing the words romantic and/or infidelity:

    “Mon Dieu, hear the poet’s prayer.
    The romantic should be here.
    The romantic should be there.
    It ought to be everywhere.
    But the romantic must never remain.
    Mon Dieu, and must never again return.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity—and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the “woman of wax” whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)