Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

"There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre 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 in Autumn quotes.

"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley in Music quotes.

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley in Poetry quotes.

"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece."
-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 in Animals quotes.

"Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley in Love quotes.

"All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - but it returneth."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man."
-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