Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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