I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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