Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 4

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• January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Grief, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.500, Delphi Classics

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• Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Perfection

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock (1944). “Shelley at Oxford”

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• Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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  Love, Life, Romantic

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146

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• A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

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  Marriage, Wells, Humans

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.110

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• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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  Happiness, Song, Laughter

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• 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!

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  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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  Beautiful, Pain, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

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  Night, Black, Shadow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.74

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• I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

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  Snow, Frost, Form

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• I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 591

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• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cities, Heaven, London

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Stars, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• Love's very pain is sweet

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  Sweet, Pain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.344

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• I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

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  Life, Pain, Compassion

  1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 1, l.303-5.

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• Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

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  Gold, Sake, Blind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

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  Moon, Night, Fire

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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  Men, Command Not, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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  Truth, Jealous, Keys

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.630

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• Within my heart is the lamp of love,
  And that is day!

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  Heart, Lamps, My Heart

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.458, Delphi Classics

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• Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

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  Perseverance, Feet, Persevere

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1914). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

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  Tolerance, Merit, Crime

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

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  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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

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  Love, Wise, Solitude

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

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• Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

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  Love, Powerful, Community

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

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• Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.

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  Miracle, World, Admiration

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.55

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