I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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