Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

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The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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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.

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It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

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Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

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As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

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O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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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.

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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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.

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