Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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• Life may change, but it may fly not;
  Hope may vanish, but can die not;
  Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
  Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Change

  1822 'Hellas', l.34-7.

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• Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Positive, Fear, Moving Forward

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• The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Study, Funny Exam

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367

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• Away, away, from men and towns,
  To the wild wood and the downs, -
  To the silent wilderness,
  Where the soul need not repress
  Its music.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Rivers, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited with a Memoir by Mathilde Blind”, p.84

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• Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Soul, Hug, Lips

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• When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happy, Humorous, Cat

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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sad, Song, Musical

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• I arise from dreams of thee
  In the first sweet sleep of night,
  when the winds are breathing low,
  and the stars are shining bright.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Sexy, Dream

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.299

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• Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  New Relationship, Essence, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inquiry, Crime, Forgiven

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.30

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• a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  May, Sparks, Single Word

  'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821; published 1840)

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• I love tranquil solitude.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Solitude, Tranquil

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Deeds, Holy

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.16

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• If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Prayer, Doubt

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Uma Defesa da Poesia e Outros Ensaios (Edição Bilíngue): Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.199, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Being Alone

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34

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• Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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  Deeds, Strange, Begets

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.294

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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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• And Spring arose on the garden fair,
  Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
  And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
  rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Dream, Nature

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

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  Delight

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.8

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• In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Atheism, Facts

  "Selected Essays on Atheism".

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• Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Hands, Bloody

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.300

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• The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Scylla, Anarchy, Rich

  'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821, published 1840)

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• History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Memories, Men, History

  "A Defence of Poetry" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821.

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• The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sorrow, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “A defense of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.43

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• The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Community, Ruins, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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