a romantic
Examples
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. (L'Express newspaper 2000)
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.