Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 15

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• Music, when soft voices die,
  Vibrates in the memory;
  Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
  Live within the sense they quicken.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Sweet, Memories

  'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Block, Lying, Book

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Daughter

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Guilt, Atheism, Modesty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.12, Booklassic

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• Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Simplicity, Innocence, Knows

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• God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Needs, Proof, Hypothesis

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics

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• I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Laughter, Mankind, Regeneration

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.470, JHU Press

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• Poet's food is love and fame.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fame, Poet

  'Good Night'

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• He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Ocean, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.321

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• But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Chained, Imprisonment

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.289

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• Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Ebb And Flow, Limits

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Christian, Men, Rights

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Simple, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wall, Lying, Ocean

  'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Endurance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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• Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Voice, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1857). “The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.463

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

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  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• 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

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• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Names, Lame, Innocent

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.367, Wordsworth Editions

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• Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Heaven, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.12

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Air, Glowing

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Isolated, Multitudes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Book, Skills, Larks

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 21.

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