Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

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

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

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The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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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.

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I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

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The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

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That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

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