Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes - page 2

The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
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Peter was dull he was at first Dull,oh so dull, so very dull Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed Dull,beyond all conception, dull.
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The world is weary of the past-- O might it die or rest at last!
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
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Let there be light said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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Good-night ah no the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night.
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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Life may change, but it may fly not Hope may vanish, but can die not Truth be veiled, but still it burneth Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
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I fall upon the thorns of life!
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His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
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There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side.
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What alive, and so bold, O earth. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Kings are like stars,they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
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Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year.
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Bai's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
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That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the Moon.
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