Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry 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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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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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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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