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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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