Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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