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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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 wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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