Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

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A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

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That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

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I Fall upon the thorns of life.

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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

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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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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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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

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God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

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

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