Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Earth groans beneath religion's iron age, And priests dare babble of a God of peace Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood.Percy Bysshe Shelley
What ruin
Will hunt thee undefended through wide Heaven!
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Its home
The voiceless lightning in these solitudes
Keeps innocently, and like vapor broods
Over the snow.
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But there is stillness now--
Gloom, and the trance of Nature now.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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