Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAnd Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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