Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
3691A 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.
3754 The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
1231 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
1850 Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
3754 In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
1931 O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life
2608 The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
3644 No more let life divide what death can join together.
3853 God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.
1708 The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.
1389 If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
1766 I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
2529 I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Has led me- who knows how?
To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
4806 Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted
4168 When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
3670 Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!
1911 And the 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.
1970 I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity.
2396 There was a Being whom my spirit oft
Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft.
A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,
Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....
4936 The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
4740 Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
4534 And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art
1273 Nothing in the world is single
All things by law divine
In one another's being mingle
Why not I with thine?
2352 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.
3484 The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanised automaton.
3275 Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
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