Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mistake, Self Improvement, Youth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.172

• But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
  Are children of one mother, even Love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hope, Children

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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