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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age: 29 †
Born: 1792
Born: August 4
Died: 1822
Died: July 8
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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.
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Love is free to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow
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Peace is in the grave.
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How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
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For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.
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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower Radiance and odour are not its dower It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.
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That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
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... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
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Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
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