708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.