Soul Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul's joy lies in doing.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard…

— 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

I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley