Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
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It might make one in love with death, to be buried in so sweet a place.
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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