Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. Percy Bysshe Shelley deedsspiritart Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array. Percy Bysshe Shelley passionspringwar A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley being-alonecheersweet Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies. Percy Bysshe Shelley marriagemindthinking The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. Percy Bysshe Shelley wintersweetthinking O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Percy Bysshe Shelley unseenautumnwind He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. Percy Bysshe Shelley universespeechmen As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. Percy Bysshe Shelley visionvoicesea A dream has power to poison sleep. Percy Bysshe Shelley poisondreamsleep O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below? Percy Bysshe Shelley gravesmindheart (Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy? Percy Bysshe Shelley starseyeart No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time. Percy Bysshe Shelley noveltymoralmistake ...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet. Percy Bysshe Shelley midnightmaymorning Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing. Percy Bysshe Shelley soul-and-bodywingsmen Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; Percy Bysshe Shelley parentkindrevenge Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. Percy Bysshe Shelley shadowpaintragedy I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name. Percy Bysshe Shelley painnameswriting The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrathevilloss The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. Percy Bysshe Shelley veilsstarsmay At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart? Percy Bysshe Shelley atheistkingsbelieve
