A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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