Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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I love all waste and solitary places.

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I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

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Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

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Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

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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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I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!

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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

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The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

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Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

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Love's very pain is sweet

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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

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Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

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Peace is in the grave.

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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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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