Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

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Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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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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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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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

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Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

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A dream has power to poison sleep.

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The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

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The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

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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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Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

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