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Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: 'tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon ... 'tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: silent those sweet lips, Once breathing eloquence That might have soothed a tiger's rage Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror. silent those sweet lips, Once breathing eloquence That might have soothed a tiger's rage Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I wish no living thing to suffer pain. I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: There is no real wealth but the labor of man. There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Through the sunset of hope,Like the shapes of a dream,What paradise islands of glory gleam! Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown. I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Within my heart is the lamp of love,And that is day! Within my heart is the lamp of love,
And that is day!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning. The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: No more alone through the world's wilderness,Although I trod the paths of high intent,I journeyed now: no more companionless No more alone through the world's wilderness,
Although I trod the paths of high intent,
I journeyed now: no more companionless
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind. War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it. It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: That sweet sleep which medicines all pain. That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: No more let life divide what death can join together. No more let life divide what death can join together.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I love tranquil solitudeAnd such societyAs is quiet, wise, and good. I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change. For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I had rather not have any more of my hopes and illusions mocked by sad realities. I had rather not have any more of my hopes and illusions mocked by sad realities.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: [Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms. [Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose. The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I love Love though he has wings, And like light can flee. I love Love
though he has wings, And like light can flee.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers. I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride, Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift. A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth. Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: This secret in the pregnant womb of time,Too vast a matter for so weak a rhyme. This secret in the pregnant womb of time,
Too vast a matter for so weak a rhyme.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found. It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief; ... As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief; ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration. It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed ... When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The soul's joy lies in doing. The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Joy, once lost, is pain Joy, once lost, is pain
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled. People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: And bid them love each other and be blest:And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's. And bid them love each other and be blest:
And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,
And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Words are but holy as the deeds they cover. Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing. Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: True Love in this differs from gold and clay,/That to divide is not to take away. True Love in this differs from gold and clay,/That to divide is not to take away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I met Murder on the way -He had a mask like Castlereagh I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart! But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below? O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - He hath awakened from the dream of life Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - He hath awakened from the dream of life
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Jealousy's eyes are green. Jealousy's eyes are green.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Deep truth is imageless. Deep truth is imageless.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose ... The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: But hope will make thee young, for Hope and YouthAre children of one mother, even Love. But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
Are children of one mother, even Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Worse than despair,Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope. Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes: All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

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