Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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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... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

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He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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

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A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

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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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Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

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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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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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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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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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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

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Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

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The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

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