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

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Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.78, tredition
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
“I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.”
“If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!”
“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.”
“Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.”

Source : "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.
“Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.”

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