Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the deb

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know th

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to beli

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraugh

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley:

  Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the co

• Billy Bob Thornton:

  You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.