Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

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Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

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You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

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

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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

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The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

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The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

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