Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

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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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Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

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The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

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...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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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 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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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

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