First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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