Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

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Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

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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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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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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.

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Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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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.

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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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