Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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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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My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

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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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GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

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a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

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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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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 most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

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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 cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

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As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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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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