Percy Bysshe Shelley cytaty (252 cytatów, strona 7)

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 252 Cytaty 1 Polubienie

Percy Bysshe Shelley słynne cytaty

„Poezja zachowuje od zniszczenia tchnienie boskości w człowieku.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Źródło: Justyna Ziarkowska, W gorączce. Krytyka literacka Maurycego Mochnackiego i Mariana José de Larra, Dolnośląskie Wydawnictwo Edukacyjne, 2004, s. 128.

„Podróżnik, wracający z starożytnej ziemi,
Rzekł do mnie: „Nóg olbrzymich z głazu dwoje sterczy
Wśród puszczy bez tułowia. W pobliżu za niemi
Tonie w piasku strzaskana twarz. Jej wzrok szyderczy,

Zacięte usta, wyraz zimnego rozkazu
Świadczą, iż rzeźbiarz dobrze na tej bryle głazu
Odtworzył skryte żądze, co, choć w poniewierce,
Przetrwały rękę mistrza i mocarza serce.

A na podstawie napis dochował się cało:
«Ja jestem Ozymandias, król królów. Mocarze!
Patrzcie na moje dzieła i przed moją chwałą

Gińcie z rozpaczy!» Więcej nic już nie zostało…
Gdzie stąpić, gruz bezkształtny oczom się ukaże
I piaski bielejące w pustyni obszarze.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Przyjaźń, drogi balsam… Uśmiech pośród zachmurzonych twarzy; umiłowany promień słońca; uścisk w samotności; schronienie w trudnościach; radość w smutku.”

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„Spójrz na me dzieło, o Potężny, i rozpaczaj.
… wokół szczątków
Tego kolosalnego wraku pustynia się roztacza,
Naga, dzika i płaska, bez końca ni początku.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandyas

Źródło: Ozymandias

„Codzienne obowiązki stają się piękne dzięki miłości.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

„O, jakże chciałbym być Antychrystem (…).”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist (…). (ang.)
Źródło: list do Thomasa Jeffersona Hogga, 3 stycznia 1811, cyt. za: Teddi Chichester Bonca, Shelley’s Mirrors of Love. Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority, SUNY Press, 1999, s. 18.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Cytaty po angielsku

“Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas

Źródło: Hellas (1821), l. 195

“Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven,
Although on earth ’tis planted,
Where its honours blow,
While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven
Which die the while they glow.”

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Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)

“Let me set my mournful ditty
To a merry measure;
Thou wilt never come for pity,
Thou wilt come for pleasure;
Pity then will cut away
Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

St. 4
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)

“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Demogorgon, Act II, sc. iv, l. 110
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness!
Rival in crime and falsehood, aping all
The wanton horrors of her bloody play;
Yet frozen, unimpassioned, spiritless,
Shunning the light, and owning not its name,
Compelled by its deformity to screen
With flimsy veil of justice and of right
Its unattractive lineaments that scare
All save the brood of ignorance; at once
The cause and the effect of tyranny;
Unblushing, hardened, sensual and vile;
Dead to all love but of its abjectness;
With heart impassive by more noble powers
Than unshared pleasure, sordid gain, or fame;
Despising its own miserable being,
Which still it longs, yet fears, to disenthrall.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab

Canto V
Queen Mab (1813)

“Here I swear, and as I break my oath may Infinity Eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge… Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon, to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again — I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.”

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Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (3 January 1811)

“The spirit of the nation that should take the lead in this great reform would insensibly become agricultural: commerce, with all its vice, selfishness, and corruption, would gradually decline; more natural habits would produce gentler manners, and the excessive complication of political relations would be so far simplified that every individual might feel and understand why he loved his country, and took a personal interest in its welfare.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley książka A Vindication of Natural Diet

A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)

“Teas,
Where small talk dies in agonies.”

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Peter Bell the Third (1819), Pt. III, st. 12

“Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley książka Ode to the West Wind

St. II
Ode to the West Wind (1819)

“If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!”

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Article 25
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

“And others came… Desires and Adorations,
Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies,
Splendours, and GloOms, and glimmering Incarnations
Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;
And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs,
And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam
Of her own dying smile instead of eyes,
Came in slow pomp; — the moving pomp might seem
Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XIII
Adonais (1821)

“Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves,
From chance, and death, and mutability,
The clogs of that which else might oversoar
The loftiest star of unascended heaven,
Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Spirit of the Hour, Act III, sc. iv, l. 200
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“Alas! that all we loved of him should be,
But for our grief, as if it had not been,
And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me!
Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene
The actors or spectators?”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXI
Adonais (1821)

“There is no God!
This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley książka The Necessity of Atheism

The Necessity of Atheism (1811)

“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley książka The Necessity of Atheism

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/shly310.txt
Alternate: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/shelleydeism.htm
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)