“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
“Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
But, sprung at once to beauty’s perfect round,
Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,—
A life-complete in death-complete to die.”
The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Captivi, Act II, scene 2, line 75.
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