Percy Bysshe Shelley

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror!”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“By solemn vision and bright silver dream His infancy was nurtured. Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever, With a sweet emotion;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are two Italies… The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley