Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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