Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWar is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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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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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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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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