A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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