Percy Bysshe Shelley idézet

„Nem gyűlölök, mert bölccsé tett a baj.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Hogy mi a szerelem? Kérdezd az élőtől, mi az, hogy élet; a hívőtől, mi az, hogy Isten.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

„A halott állat húsát a konyhai elkészítés „álcázza”, vagyis evésre alkalmassá teszi, így az egyébként nyers, véres valóság látványa már nem okoz utálatot, kibírhatatlan ellenszenvet.
Queen Mab Notes“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Az ember egyáltalán nem hasonlít a ragadozó állatokra. Még az orángután sem, aki a majmok törzsének leginkább emberszabású tagja, ama állatcsoporté melynek minden tagja gyümölcsevő.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Jaj, nincs egészség, nincs remény,
jaj, nincs békém se kinn, se benn,
a lélek kincse sem enyém,
a szemlélődés fénye sem,
mely ott ragyog a bölcseken –
látom, már minden másoké lett,
hatalom, hír és szerelem,
másokra mosolyog az élet –
ezen a lakomán helyet már nem remélek.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

Vas István fordítása
Idézetek verseiből

„Ne féljetek a jövőtől, ne sírjatok a múlt miatt.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, könyv Ode to the West Wind

St. I
Ode to the West Wind (1819)

„By solemn vision and bright silver dream
His infancy was nurtured. Every sight
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

„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)
Kontextus: 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

Forrás: The Complete Poems

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

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love's Philosophy

Love's Philosophy (1819), st. 2

„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

„Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

St. 2
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)
Kontextus: Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
Ask why the sunlight not for ever
Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river,
Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,
Why fear and dream and death and birth
Cast on the daylight of this earth
Such gloom, why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?

„An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

English in 1819 http://www.readprint.com/work-1361/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1819), l. 1
Kontextus: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, —
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.

„The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

St. 1
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1816)
Kontextus: The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us; visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

„A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

Demogorgon, Act IV, l. 549
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Kontextus: Man, who wert once a despot and a slave,
A dupe and a deceiver! a decay,
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.

„Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonaïs

St. XVIII
Adonais (1821)

„I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: — Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Ozymandias (1818)
Kontextus: I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: — Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

„When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead —
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the Lamp is Shattered http://www.readprint.com/work-1382/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1822), st. 1
Kontextus: When the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead —
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.