A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Sing 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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