The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAre we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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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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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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