Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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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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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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