Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happy, Care, Thinking

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Valentine's Day, Soul, Lovers

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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sad, Pain, Laughter

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spring, Far, Wind

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sad, Thought, Tell

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ignorance, Study, Discover

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sweet, Darkness, Solitude

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Future, Fear, Past

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spring, Far, Winter

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Others, Put

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change, Peace, Men

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

War, Brother, Crime

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Through, Seen, Sky

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Men, Government

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Die, Dead, Debt

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mistakes, Youth, Worth

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, Beautiful, Makes

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, Beautiful, Through

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

History, Time, Memories

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep, Joy, Wine

The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Joy, Soul, Lies

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, Die, Memory

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing, Laurels, Faster

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul, Nor, Virtuous

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 4, 1792

Died: July 8, 1822

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