Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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

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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

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O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

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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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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

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Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave.

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Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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I Fall upon the thorns of life.

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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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