Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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.

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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