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“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley