Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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