Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry 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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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