Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

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A dream has power to poison 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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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

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But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

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The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

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We know not what we do When we speak words.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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

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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

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Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

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Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

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There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

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The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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