708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

...’tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon....

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.