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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYO, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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