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Heart Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

21 Heart quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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For anyone who loves sweeping Romantic idealism, Shelley’s twenty‑one reflections on the heart deliver both fervor and philosophical depth. His lyrical cadence threads personal yearning with larger‑than‑life visions, giving a taste of his enduring poetic range.

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

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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were…

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I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee…

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The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your…

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

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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,…

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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring…

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

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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a…

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

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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the…

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

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

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

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I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer…

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The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

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

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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless…

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A dream has power to poison sleep.

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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed !”

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“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…

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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The…

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The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own…

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Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

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Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill;…

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