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Earth 154 Sweet 140 Spirit 140 I Love You 131 Love 131 Soul 117 Cold 112 Light 108 Wild 106 Bright 105


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  • We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
  • Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
  • Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
  • We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
  • I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Agd64341: “our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” –percy bysshe shelley
Joesmithreally: "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." - percy bysshe shelley's 1821 essay ‘a defence of poetry.’ setting aside the self-serving hubris of a poet, imagine dreaming of such a thing. or, better yet: imagine a world in which poetry governed politics.
Tevfikacar797: “our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” –percy bysshe shelley
Doriiyoun: [명언]if winter comes, can spring be far behind? (percy bysshe shelley)
_rob_scott: an excellent book on percy bysshe shelley's weird materialism and 'the weakness of the actual'--a very deserving finalist for the university english prize. here's my review from last year:
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