Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, To the silent wilderness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven’s immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece.
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
White shall not neutralise the black, nor good Compensate bad of man, absolve him so; Life’s business being just the terrible choice.
Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
