Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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