Percy Bysshe Shelley: Trending quotes
Percy Bysshe Shelley trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought”
Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”
Source: The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
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.”
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.”
Calderón, “Scenes from the <i>Magico Prodigioso</i>” 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
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.
St. 18
To a Skylark (1821)
Source: The Complete Poems
“Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!”
Percy Bysshe Shelley book Ode to the West Wind
St. I
Ode to the West Wind (1819)