Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Poet
Born: Aug 4, 1792
Died: Jul 8, 1822
Good Imagination Man Nature Poetry Soul
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Robert Browning W. H. Auden William Blake William Wordsworth
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature Winter Wind Spring Behind Far
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul Meets Lips Lovers
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
Sad Thought Laughter Before Pain Our Those Tell Fraught Some Songs Saddest Sincerest Look Pine After Sweetest
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Future Fear Past Weep
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
Happy Cats Care Thinking Ways Mood About Know Because Up Get Sitting Just Even
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Government Good Wise Will Evil Men Thoughtlessness Only Make Itself Decay Vices Necessary Necessary Evil
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude Darkness Poet Own Sweet Poetry Cheer Sounds Sings Who
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joy Will Wine Other Drunken Taste Deep Tonight
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sky Seen Autumn Harmony Summer Could Through Had Been Heard Which Luster
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beautiful Mirror Distorted Poetry Makes Which
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance Our More Study Discover
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
Fears First Dust Too Our Pleasures Claims Hopes Dead Due Debt Die Then
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
World Beauty Hidden Objects Poetry Lifts Veil Makes Were Familiar
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good Man Become Own Imagination Others Pleasures Must He Put Himself Another His Greatly Intensely Place Pains Many Species Imagine
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Would Poetry Consumes Contain Lightning Which Ever Sword
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good Great Imagination Moral Instrument
There is no real wealth but the labor of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man Wealth Real Labor
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man Soul Virtuous Nor Commands
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Youth Worth Mistakes Our Spend Follies Manhood Anything Us Who
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life Death Live Those Lifted Veil Call Which Who Sleep
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
Love Woman Love Is Free Believe Inquiry Promise Cases Both Absurd Vow Than Same To Love Us Less Ever Creed
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Differences Imagination Respects Reason Things
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature Fault Punishment Only Proportion Knows How Justly Deserves
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. Percy Bysshe Shelley
You Problem Worth Stupid Superfluous Case Something Crux Sure Said Comment Very May Either Which Formidable Thing
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age Revenge Naked Worship Idol
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man Yesterday Never Morrow Like His May Endure

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