Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAway, 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 great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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