Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

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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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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

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Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

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Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

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Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings.

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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Joy, once lost, is pain

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It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

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The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

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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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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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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

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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.

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