• Categories
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes   437
  • Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sight Quotes , Long Quotes
  • The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Views Quotes
  • Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Determination Quotes , Men Quotes