Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYO, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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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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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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