All Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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History
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
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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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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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Poetry
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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