Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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