Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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