--- title: "1 Like Rest Quotes By Percy Shelley" description: "1 Like Rest quotes by Percy Shelley. Plus more from Percy Shelley and more Like Rest sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/percy-shelley-66811_darkness_we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight_246851.jpg" --- > [“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever; Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-shelley/we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight-moon-how-restlessly-they/) Percy Shelley [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/percy-shelley-66811_darkness_we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight_246851.jpg) ## More by Percy Shelley > [“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-shelley/we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight-moon-how-restlessly-they/) Percy Shelley > [“And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea What are all these kissings worth - If thou kiss not me?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-shelley/and-the-sunlight-clasps-the-earth-and-the-moonbeams-kiss-the-sea-what/) Percy Shelley > [“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-shelley/and-as-this-creation-itself-is-poetry-so-its-creators-were-poets-and/) Percy Shelley > [“It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-shelley/it-creates-anew-the-universe-after-it-has-been-annihilated-in-our/) Percy Shelley ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-rest/percy-shelley/#itemlist", "name": "1 Like Rest Quotes By Percy Shelley", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever; Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. 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. ”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Percy Shelley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-shelley/we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight-moon-how-restlessly-they/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/percy-shelley-66811_darkness_we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight_246851.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/percy-shelley-66811_darkness_we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight_246851.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/percy-shelley-66811_darkness_we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight_246851.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking…” — Percy Shelley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-rest/percy-shelley/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-rest/percy-shelley/", "name": "Like Rest Quotes by Percy Shelley", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-rest/percy-shelley/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/percy-shelley-66811_darkness_we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight_246851.jpg" }, "description": "1 Like Rest quotes by Percy Shelley. 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