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Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'


Percy Sledge

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore,...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old,...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world,...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ...What are numbers knit
By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of hi...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
PERCY H. JOHNSON The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should b...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as sca...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; The...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no pr...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have h...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect....
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY