• Categories
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes   437
  • Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Moving Quotes , Inspiration Quotes
  • True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Love Is Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Patriotic Quotes , Eye Quotes