Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

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We know not what we do When we speak words.

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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

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Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.

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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

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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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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

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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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That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

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Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!

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Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

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The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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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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