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• How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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  Beautiful, Sunset, Land

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.666, Pearson Education

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• Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

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  Heart, Brain, Spirit

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

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• We know not what we do
  When we speak words.

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  Speak, Knows

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1857). “The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.328

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• Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

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  Determination, Men, Wind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

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  Happiness, Race, Roots

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822). “Queen Mab”, p.112

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• Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

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  Ignorance, Judgement, Criticism

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• Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

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  Stupid, Race, Despair

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.946, Delphi Classics

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• For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

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  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391

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• Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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  Song, Learning, Men

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 544

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• And priests dare babble of a God of peace,
  Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood,
  Murdering the while, uprooting every germ
  Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all,
  Making the earth a slaughter - house!

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  Blood, Hands, House

  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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• Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

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  Passion, Mind, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.732, Pearson Education

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• There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

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  Fall, Autumn, Sky

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• The soul's joy lies in doing.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
  Are children of one mother, even Love.

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  Mother, Hope, Children

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

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• How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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  Death, Brother, Sleep

  'The Daemon of the World' part 1, l. 1 (a revision of the opening lines of 'Queen Mab')

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• Worse than despair,
  Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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  Hope, Despair, Bitterness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.1114, JHU Press

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• God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

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  Ignorance, Logic, Infinite

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

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  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

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  Running, Clouds, Race

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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• Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
  Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
  That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
  Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

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  Wise, Names, Mind

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• The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

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  Life, Song, Heaven

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

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• Peace is in the grave.

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  Graves

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

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  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

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  Atheist, Kings, Believe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Ingpen, Walter Edwin Peck (1965). “Complete Works: Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck”

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• There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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  Food, Men, Thinking

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