The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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 wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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When 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.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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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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