Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

437 quotes · Poet

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet

Melancholic

“All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”

Mistake Youth Self Improvement

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet

Philosophical

“All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.”

Firsts Poetry Acorns

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Wise

“Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.”

Deeds Holy

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Melancholic

“Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

Life Fall

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Hopeful

“But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.”

Children Mother Hope

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Calm

“I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.”

Love Wise

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Love

“I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.”

Form Snow

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Love

“Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.”

Art Spirit Deeds

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Philosophical

“I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls; The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening soul in my suspended blood.”

Light Cities Blood

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Wise

“Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.”

Ignorance Criticism Judgement

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Love

“Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.”

Heart Brain Spirit

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Happy

“How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!”

Beautiful Land Sunset

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