Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“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… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
