Percy Bysshe Shelley

“First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too.”

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

“I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”

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

“The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.”

“First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.”