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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude
To live alone, an isolated thing?”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Solitary
Tagged: Solitude, Isolation, Alone
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc
Tagged: Remote, World, Soul, Death
“Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle —
Why not I with thine?”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love's Philosophy
Tagged: Single, No Man Is An Island, romance
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci
Tagged: Joy, Drunk, Wine, Drinking
“First our pleasures die — and then
Our hopes, and then our fears — and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust — and we die too.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Death
Tagged: Death, Dying, Hope, Fear
“As I must die on thine,
O, beloved as thou art!

O, lift me from the grass!
I die, I faint, I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Indian Serenade
Tagged: Love Poem
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley's Poetry and Prose(Norton Critical Edition)
Tagged: Literature In Love, Love and Literature
“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tagged: Songs, poem, Thought
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
Tagged: Winter, Spring, Waiting, Season, Hope
“When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead —
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, When the Lamp is Shattered
Tagged: Love, sweet
“The more we study, we the more discover
Our ignorance.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso
Tagged: Study, Knowledge, Discover, Ignorance
“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
Tagged: Truth, Communication, Perception, Reason
“No more let life divide what death can join together.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
Tagged: Death, Life
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
Tagged: Imagination, Man, Pain, Pleasure, Morality
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:

It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mutability
Tagged: Rest, Dream, Waking Up, Feelings, Joy, Sorrow
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