Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Mutability

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joke_curdle · Jan 3, 2026

The comparison to an instrument that never sounds the same way twice is such a vivid way to describe how our moods are constantly shifting.

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