Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes - page 5

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. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. View quote
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What is Freedom? - ye can tell That which slavery is, too well - For its very name has grown To an echo of your own. View quote
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Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight. View quote
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In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. View quote
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. View quote
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Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory. View quote
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. View quote
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My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands! View quote
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright. View quote
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle - Why not I with thine? (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead -- When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. View quote
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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. View quote
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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change nor falter nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life; Joy, Empire, and Victory! View quote
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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. View quote
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Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou - let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. View quote
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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. View quote
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All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. View quote
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Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. View quote
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Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity! View quote
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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. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set. View quote
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Swiftly walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, - Swift be thy flight! View quote
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And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's. View quote
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And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. View quote
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