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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Lived from: 1792 - 1822

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 august 1792 Died: 8 july 1822

  • All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
  • Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
  • 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.
  • Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
  • Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
  • January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
  • Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
  • Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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  • The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
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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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  • 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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  • A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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  • All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
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  • All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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  • Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
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  • Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
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  • Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
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  • Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
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  • Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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  • Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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  • Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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  • Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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  • He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
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  • How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
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  • I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
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  • If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
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  • In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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  • Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
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What are the most famous quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley?

The two most famous quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley are:

  • "The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership."
  • "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!"

When did Percy Bysshe Shelley live?

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 and died in the year 1822.