"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.“
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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