Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI wish no living thing to suffer pain.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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