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