In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHeaven’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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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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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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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 have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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