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Words Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from…
- Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
- Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
- Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
- And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.…
- What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth…
- Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what…
- And on the pedestal these words appear My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!
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