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1. "There was a Being whom my spirit oftMet on its visioned wanderings far aloft.A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman...." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. "Sounds of vernal showersOn the twinkling grass,Rain awaken'd flowers,All that ever wasJoyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. "Podróznik, wracajacy z starozytnej ziemi,Rzekl do mnie: „Nóg olbrzymich z glazu dwoje sterczyWsród puszczy bez tulowia. W poblizu za niemiTonie w piasku strzaskana twarz. Jej wzrok szyderczy,Zaciete usta, wyraz zimnego rozkazuSwiadcza, iz rzezbiarz dobrze na tej bryle glazuOdtworzyl skryte zadze, co, choc w poniewierce,Przetrwaly reke mistrza i mocarza serce.A na podstawie napis dochowal sie calo:«Ja jestem Ozymandias, król królów. Mocarze!Patrzcie na moje dziela i przed moja chwalaGincie z rozpaczy!» Wiecej nic juz nie zostalo...Gdzie stapic, gruz bezksztaltny oczom sie ukazeI piaski bielejace w pustyni obszarze." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. "You are nowIn London, that great sea, whose ebb and flowAt once is deaf and loud, and on the shoreVomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.Yet in its depth what treasures!" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. "Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
6. "it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
7. "One too like thee: tameles, and Swift, and proud." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
8. "He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
9. "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
10. "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
11. "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
12. "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
13. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. "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
15. "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
16. "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
17. "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. "All love is sweet, given or received..." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
19. "The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. "Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. "a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
22. "The everlasting universe of thingsFlows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom--Now lending splendour, where from secret springsThe source of human thought its tribute brings." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
23. "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
24. "The splendors of the firmament of timeMay be eclipsed, but are extinguished not;Like stars to their appointed height they climbAnd death is a low mist which cannot blotThe brightness it may veil." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
25. "Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
26. "A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. "The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
28. "To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
29. "Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to knowThat things depart which never may return:Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first glow,Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.These common woes I feel. One loss is mineWhich thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore.Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shineOn some frail bark in winter's midnight roar:Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stoodAbove the blind and battling multitude:In honored poverty thy voice did weaveSongs consecrate to truth and liberty,--Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
30. "Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower—and this is the burden of the curse of Babel." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. "Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror!" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
32. "Love, hope, and self-esteem, like clouds departAnd come, for some uncertain moments lent.Man were immortal and omnipotent,Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art,Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
33. "--Seek far from noise and day some western cave, Where woods and streams with soft and pausing winds A lulling murmur weave?— [_30 Ianthe] doth not sleep The dreamless sleep of death:-Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2011-03-24). The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete (Kindle Locations 317-319). . Kindle Edition." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. "Lift not the painted veil which those who liveCall Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,And it but mimic all we would believeWith colours idly spread,--behind, lurk FearAnd Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weaveTheir shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.I knew one who had lifted it--he sought,For his lost heart was tender, things to love,But found them not, alas! nor was there aughtThe world contains, the which he could approve.Through the unheeding many he did move,A splendour among shadows, a bright blotUpon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that stroveFor truth, and like the Preacher found it not" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
35. "I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
36. "Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
37. "There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathlessrapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, likethe enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one belovedsinging to you alone." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
38. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
39. "Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
40. "Joy, once lost, is pain" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
41. "If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
42. "Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
43. "Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
44. "O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
45. "The soul's joy lies in doing." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. "Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
47. "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
48. "Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
49. "I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet!" ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
50. "Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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