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Quotes by Percy Shelley

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
 
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserved.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: http://www.famous-quotes-and-inspirational-quotes.com/quotations/love-quotes.htm
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With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: The Revolt of Islam. Canto v. Stanza 23.
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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 : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: To a Skylark. Line 86.
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in BaiƦ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: Ode to the West Wind.
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: Julian and Maddalo. Line 482.
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There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre 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 : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
 
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The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: Adonais. xxx.
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The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: Line 195.Line 221.
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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : English romantic poet who rebelled against strictures of politics & religion
Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Source: One Word is too often profaned.
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