Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Laughter, Rain, Clouds

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Connections, Divinity, Divine

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• The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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  Heart, Self, Black

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1926). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Notes on Shelley's correspondents. Letters, 1803 to 1812”

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• Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

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  Actors, Scene, Spectators

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 21

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• No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

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  Mistake, Novelty, Moral

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

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• I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

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  Life, Children, Lying

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.227

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• The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

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  Sweet, Winter, Thinking

  'Adonais' (1821) preface

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• Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

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  Love, Misery, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1915). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

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  Life, Real, Ignorance

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

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• I stood within the city disinterred;
  And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls
  Of spirits passng through the streets;
  and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals
  Thrill through those roofless halls;
  The oracular thunder penetrating shook
  The listening soul in my suspended blood.

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  Light, Blood, Cities

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.544

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• Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

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  Men, Soul And Body, Wings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822). “Queen Mab”, p.37

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• The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

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  Weed, Dream, Winter

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1060

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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

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  Real, Men, Wealth

  "Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection".

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• For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

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  Compassion, Suffering, Deeds

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

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• A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

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  Husband, Law, Long

  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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• As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

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  Sea, Voice, Vision

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

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  Memories, Spring, Air

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.350, Pearson Education

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• ...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

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  Morning, Midnight, May

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.193

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• Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

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  Art, Deeds, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.452

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• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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  Money, Business, Generosity

  Ivan Roe, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1953). “Shelley, the last phase”

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• (Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

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  Art, Stars, Eye

  'To the Moon'

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• O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

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  Heart, Mind, Graves

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1384, 谷月社

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• No more let life divide what death can join together.

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  Together, Divides

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.291

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• Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

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  Sleep, Soul, Slumber

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.467

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