Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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

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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

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The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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Jealousy's eyes are green.

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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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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

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So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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No more let life divide what death can join together.

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

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All love is sweet, given or received.

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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

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

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Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

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