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Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes

English Poet August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822

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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "All love is sweet, given or received..."
All love is sweet, given or received... Percy Bysshe Shelley
O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime? No more -- Oh, never more! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more -- Oh, never more! Percy Bysshe Shelley
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments---Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Percy Bysshe Shelley
I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear? Till death like sleep might steal on me And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change and extinction). This is the character of all life and being - each is at once the centre and the circumference; the point to which all things are contained. - "On Life Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "In friendships I had been most fortunate. Yet never saw I one..."
In friendships I had been most fortunate. Yet never saw I one whom I would call. More willingly my friend Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - He hath..."
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - He hath awakened from the dream of life Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he..."
O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep,..."
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much. Percy Bysshe Shelley
All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.' But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "I Fall upon the thorns of life...."
I Fall upon the thorns of life.... Percy Bysshe Shelley

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