Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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