Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 3

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  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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• Deep truth is imageless.

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  Truth, Truth Is

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.393, Modern Library

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• There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Vegetables, Water, Adoption

  Queen Mab Notes

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• A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
  And it opened its fan
  like leaves to the light,
  and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Sunset, Kissing

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.254

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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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• I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

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  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 591

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• Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
  For one another, though dissimilar?

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  Music, Piano, Notes Music

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.493, Wordsworth Editions

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• I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

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  Life, Pain, Compassion

  1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 1, l.303-5.

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• Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Writing, Poetry, Mind

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

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• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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  Mistake, Self Improvement, Youth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.172

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• Love's very pain is sweet,
  But its reward is in the world divine
  Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.285

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• If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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

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  Gold, Sake, Blind

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

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• See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

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  Sweet, Brother, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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  Wine, Joy, Tonight

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1935). “The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.750, Library of Alexandria

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• GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Rights, Government, Purpose

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.284

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• Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

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  Perseverance, Feet, Persevere

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1914). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

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  Music, Memories, Voice

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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• I love tranquil solitude
  And such society
  As is quiet, wise, and good.

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  Love, Wise, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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  Truth, Jealous, Keys

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.630

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• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

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  Religious, Children, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Joy, once lost, is pain

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  Pain, Joy, Chaos

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

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• Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

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  Age, Musician, Philosopher

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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  Pain, Men, Imagine

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Creative, Deities, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.263, JHU Press

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