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.
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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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