Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
Percy Bysshe Shelley