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“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source: The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

“Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle —
Why not I with thine?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's Philosophy http://www.readprint.com/work-1365/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), st. 1

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

The Moon, Act IV, l. 451
Variant: Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Source: Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam

Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

“The more we study, we the more discover / Our ignorance.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Calderón, “Scenes from the &lt;i&gt;Magico Prodigioso&lt;/i&gt;” fourth speech of Cyprian, as translated by Shelley, found in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott, William B, ed. https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksofp1934shel/page/577 <br class="br">Misattributed

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci

The Cenci (1819), Act I, sc. iii, l. 88

“Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXXVIII
Adonais (1821)
Context: He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;
Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now -
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source: The Complete Poems