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Love's very pain is sweet
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
'tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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
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
What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
No more let life divide what death can join together.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
My father Time is weak and grayWith waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
One wandering thought pollutes the day;
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joy, once lost, is pain
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul's joy lies in doing.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's very pain is sweet,But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have made my bedIn charnels and on coffins, where black death
Keeps record of the trophies won — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Friendship, a dear balm...A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet's food is love and fame.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
To hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates;
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
And the sunlight claps the earth,And the moonbeam kiss the sea,
What is all these sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
True Love in this differs from gold and clay,/That to divide is not to take away.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hell is a city much like London.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met Murder on the way -He had a mask like Castlereagh — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is in my power to honor you.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
We know not what we doWhen we speak words. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have drunken deep of joy ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley