Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes - page 3

The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. View quote
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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. View quote
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The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. View quote
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Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. View quote
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How wonderful is death Death and his brother sleep. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hell is a city much like London - A populous and a smoky city. View quote
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. View quote
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Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. View quote
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Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! View quote
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I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home. View quote
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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. View quote
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True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning. View quote
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Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor. View quote
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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought. View quote
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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose. View quote
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By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system. View quote
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You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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. View quote
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The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard. View quote
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. View quote
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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame. View quote
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