Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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Poets, 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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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