Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
More Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
- Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
- Here I swear, and as I break my oath may … eternity blast me, here I swear that...
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- Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,...
- Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
- Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam!
- When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I...
- Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still...
- Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
- War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
- O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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