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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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 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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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