Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes — Page 20

Poet

Happy

“In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.”

Running Race Clouds

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet

Wise

“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”

Self Drama Respect

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Angry

“Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.”

Tea Agony

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Melancholic

“And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.”

Dream Butterfly

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Hopeful

“The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.”

Dream Winter Weed

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Hopeful

“So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.”

Heaven Despair Fortune

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Sad

“The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!”

World Past

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Motivated

“The soul's joy lies in doing.”

Lying Happiness

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Wise

“I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.”

Men Past Errors

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Love

“The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.”

Powerful Wise Wisdom

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Spiritual

“It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.”

Men Simple Ignorance

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Melancholic

“The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.”

Life Song Heaven

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