Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

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The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.

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The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

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

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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

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And on the pedestal these words appear:  'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:  Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'  Nothing beside remains. Round the decay  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare  The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

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Love's very pain is sweet

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Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

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Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

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The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

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