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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . Picture Quote #1

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things Picture Quote #1

My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands! Picture Quote #1

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too Picture Quote #1

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect Picture Quote #1

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet Picture Quote #1

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams Picture Quote #1

There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman Picture Quote #1

The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God Picture Quote #1

And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting every germ Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all, Making the earth a slaughter - house! Picture Quote #1

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world Picture Quote #1

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade Picture Quote #1

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man Picture Quote #1

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted Picture Quote #1

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things Picture Quote #1

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age Picture Quote #1

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover Picture Quote #1

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering Picture Quote #1

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach Picture Quote #1

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude Picture Quote #1

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes Picture Quote #1

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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth Picture Quote #1

I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire! Picture Quote #1

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself Picture Quote #1

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain Picture Quote #1

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue Picture Quote #1

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! Picture Quote #1

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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . . (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) 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 Quotes) This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.... (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman.... (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting every germ Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all, Making the earth a slaughter - house! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Words are but holy as the deeds they cover (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes) Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)

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