Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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