Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Jealousy's eyes are green.

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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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What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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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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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

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O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

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(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

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It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

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What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

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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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My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!

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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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