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 SHELLEYA single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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