Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

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Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

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Love's very pain is sweet

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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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Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

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It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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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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Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

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A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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I Fall upon the thorns of life.

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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