Quote Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Whatever strengthens and pur…

‘Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections enlarges the imagination and adds spirit to sense is useful.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Familiar acts are beautiful …

‘Familiar acts are beautiful through love.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Music when soft voices die V…

‘Music when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory; Odors when sweet violets sicken Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves when the rose is dead Are heaped for the beloveds bed; And so thy thoughts when thou art … Continue reading

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Power like a desolating pest…

‘Power like a desolating pestilence pollutes whatever it touches.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘One word is too often profan…

‘One word is too often profaned For me to profane it One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Death is the veil which thos…

‘Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep and it is lifted.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Oh cease! Must hate and deat…

‘Oh cease! Must hate and death return? Cease! Must men kill and die? Cease! Drain not to its dregs the urn of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past Oh might it die or rest at last!’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Hell is a city much like Lon…

‘Hell is a city much like London – A populous and a smoky city.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Chastity is a monkish and ev…

‘Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘For there are deeds Which ha…

‘For there are deeds Which have no form sufferings which have no tongue.’

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