I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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