--- title: "9 Percy-bysshe-shelley Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 9 Percy-bysshe-shelley quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Percy-bysshe-shelley sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_nature_rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanqu_340191.jpg" --- > [“Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew We are many, they are few”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanquishable-number-shake-your/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_nature_rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanqu_340191.jpg) > [ “\[Poetry\] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-from-the-world-and-lays-bear/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beauty_poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-fr_3206301.jpg) > [“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/reading-does-not-occupy-me-enough-the-only-relief-i-find-springs-from/) [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_john-keats_reading-does-not-occupy-me-enough-the-on_918447.jpg) > [“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-holmes/into-this-stronghold-of-royalist-tradition-and-prejudice-shelley/) [Richard Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-holmes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad7/richard-holmes-50818_books_into-this-stronghold-of-royalist-traditi_2145596.jpg) > [“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-richler/his-mother-zach-explained-taught-the-romantics-and-named-her-sons/) [Emma Richler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-richler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/emma-richler-12215_be-my-wolff_his-mother-zach-explained-taught-the-rom_2490782.jpg) > [“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-eagleton/might-not-too-much-investment-in-teaching-shelley-mean-falling-behind/) [Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-eagleton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/terry-eagleton-1660_capitalism_might-not-too-much-investment-in-teachin_2211335.jpg) > [“The radiance of which he speaks is the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing. The supreme quality is felt by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/the-radiance-of-which-he-speaks-is-the-scholastic-quidditas-the/) [James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/james-joyce-281_beauty_the-radiance-of-which-he-speaks-is-the-s_2419912.jpg) > [“ Abyssinias "I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: A huge four-footed limestone form Sits in the desert, sinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-n-beard/abyssinias-i-met-a-traveler-from-an-antique-land-who-said-a-huge-four/) [Henry N. Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-n-beard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/henry-n-beard-30905_cats_abyssinias-i-met-a-traveler-from-an-anti_1354401.jpg) > [“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-2/the-book-was-shelley-and-it-opened-at-a-passage-that-he-had-cherished/) [E.M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/e-m-forster-2-1148_book_the-book-was-shelley-and-it-opened-at-a_1761098.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/percy-bysshe-shelley/#itemlist", "name": "Percy-bysshe-shelley Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew We are many, they are few”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanquishable-number-shake-your/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_nature_rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanqu_340191.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_nature_rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanqu_340191.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_nature_rise-like-lions-after-slumber-in-unvanqu_340191.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew We are many, they…” — Percy Bysshe Shelley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-from-the-world-and-lays-bear/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beauty_poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-fr_3206301.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beauty_poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-fr_3206301.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_beauty_poetry-strips-the-veil-of-familiarity-fr_3206301.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is…” — Percy Bysshe Shelley", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above the stormy mist of sensations which are my habitual place of abode. 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