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 SHELLEYLove withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Heaven’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.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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