It is love; but it is poetic love
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"It is love; but it is poetic love" is a dictum by the Goncourt brothers on the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by Antoine Watteau. The dictum is recorded in French Eighteenth Century Painters.
- "It is love; but it is poetic love, the love that contemplates and dreams, modern Love with its aspirations and its coronal of melancholy." (Robin Ironside, London, 1948).
- "C'est l'amour ; mais c'est l'amour poétique, l'amour qui songe et qui pense, l'amour moderne, avec ses aspirations et sa couronne de mélancolie."
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