Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Positive, Fear, Moving Forward

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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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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!

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  Love, Life, Change

  1822 'Hellas', l.34-7.

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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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• 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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• For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

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  Delight

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.8

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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.

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  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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• Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

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  Life, Fall, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 53 (1819)

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

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  Self, Evil, Solitude

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

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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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• The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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  Community, Ruins, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

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  May, Sparks, Single Word

  'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821; published 1840)

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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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• A dream has power to poison sleep.

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  Dream, Sleep, Poison

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192

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• When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

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  Joy, Heaven, Soul

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

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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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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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  Spring, Winter, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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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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• 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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• A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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  Beauty, Poetry, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

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