Percy Bysshe Shelley: Trending quotes

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

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

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

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

“All love is sweet, given or received…”

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

“Joy, once lost, is pain”

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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

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

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

“The sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?”

“Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed, — but it returneth!”

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

“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

“Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!”

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“Fame is love disguised.”

“A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.”