Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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  • It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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  • Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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  • Necessity! thou mother of the world!
    Queen Mab VI, 58
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  • Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
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  • Nought may endure but Mutability.
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  • O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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  • 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.
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  • Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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  • Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught.
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  • Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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  • Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
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  • Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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  • Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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  • Poets' food is love and fame.
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  • Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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  • Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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