Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Understanding, Gold

  1821 'Epipsychidion', l.160-1.

• True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
  That to divide is not to take away.
  Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
  Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
  Imagination! which from earth and sky,
  And from the depths of human phantasy,
  As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
  The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
  Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
  Of its reverberated lightning.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Love Is, Arrows

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.282

• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

• Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Law, Justice

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1842). “The masque of Anarchy, a poem, with a preface by L. Hunt. To which is added, Queen Liberty; Song- To the men of England”, p.18

• Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Gold, Virtue, Scorn

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.81

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Gold, Sake, Blind

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

• Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Clouds, Islands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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