Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• 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

• I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Self, Evil, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.350, JHU Press

• Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  War, Solitude, Thee

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1816). “Alastor, or The spirit of solitude, &c., ed. by H.B. Forman”, p.43

• I love tranquil solitude.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Solitude, Tranquil

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

• I love all waste and solitary places.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Solitude, Waste, Solitary

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 14

• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1908, Delphi Classics

• I love tranquil solitude
  And such society
  As is quiet, wise, and good.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Wise, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

• I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Differences, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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