Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

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For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

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When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

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We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

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Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

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Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

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O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

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Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

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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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His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

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Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

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