I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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