Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI 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.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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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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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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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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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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