Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet, known for his lyrical and visionary works. His poetry often explored themes of radicalism, nature, and the power of imagination. He is celebrated as one of the major figures in English literature and a voice for political and personal freedom. Here are 341 of his quotes:

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. View quote
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. View quote
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. View quote
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. View quote
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. View quote
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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. View quote
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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. View quote
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love. View quote
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. View quote
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. View quote
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. View quote
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. View quote
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. View quote
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. View quote
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. View quote
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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. View quote
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. View quote
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. View quote
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. View quote
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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. View quote
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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? View quote
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A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. View quote
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Image
Occupation: British Poet
Born: August 4, 1792
Died: July 8, 1822
Quotes count: 341
Wikipedia: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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