Love Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep truth is imageless.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love tranquil solitude.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I can give not what men call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never may return: Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Whether that lady's gentle mind, No longer with the form combined Which scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley