Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYJoy, once lost, is pain.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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