Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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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I love tranquil solitude.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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