A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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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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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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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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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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