Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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• Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dust, Mind, Principles

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.432, 谷月社

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

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  Positive, Fear, Moving Forward

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

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

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  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.

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  Happy, Humorous, Cat

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

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  Sad, Song, Musical

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Command Not, Soul

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

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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.

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  New Relationship, Essence, Liberty

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

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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.

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  Solitude, Tranquil

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

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• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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  Imagination, Moral, Instruments

  1821 A Defence of Poetry.

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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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• 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?

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  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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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  Law, Why Not, World

  'Love's Philosophy'

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• The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Ends, Babe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education

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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.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Nature

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

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• First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

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  Dust, Debt, Firsts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.231

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• Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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  Men, Would Be, Empires

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.610, Pearson Education

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• Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

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  Heart, Hands, Bloody

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

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

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  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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