Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

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But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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I love all waste and solitary places.

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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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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

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

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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

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Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

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Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill; Every little living nerve That from bitter words did swerve Round the tortur'd lips and brow, Are like sapless leaflets now Frozen upon December's bough.

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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

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Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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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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But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

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