Authors — Quotes

Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes: 14

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.
The Complete Poems
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Ode to the West Wind
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
No more let life divide what death can join together.
Adonais
I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
Music, When Soft Voices DieMusic, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
The Complete Poems
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted
When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Prometheus Unbound
O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity.
Poetry and Prose