Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

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I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

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Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

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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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The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

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Jealousy's eyes are green.

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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

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Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

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