Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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