Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

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A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

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Jealousy's eyes are green.

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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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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

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O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.

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

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Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

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The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

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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.

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There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

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