Quotes by : Denis de Rougemont

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful....

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being,....

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound....