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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
By 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.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley