“Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley , To a Skylark

St. 3
To a Skylark (1821)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun." by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

Percy Bysshe Shelley 246

English Romantic poet 1792–1822

Related quotes

“Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys.”

John Donne book Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed

No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies

“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 47

“I am a layman in matters of culture; I would like to study them, but have only just begun to do so.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Whither China?
On New Democracy (1940)

“I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.”

Tara Westover (1986) American historian and author

Source: Educated (2018)

“That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916)
Context: That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy. There the reign of necessity ceases, and there our function is not to get but to be. To be what? To be one with Brahma. For the region of the infinite is the region of unity. Therefore the Upanishads say: If man apprehends God he becomes true. Here it is becoming, it is not having more. Words do no gather bulk when you know their meaning; they become true by being one with the idea.