I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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