708 Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world’s slow stain, he is secure.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet.

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

The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart’s blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven’s high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

Look on yonder earth: The golden harvests spring; the unfailing sun Sheds light and life; the fruits, the flowers, the trees, Arise in due succession; all things speak Peace, harmony and love. The universe, In Nature’s silent eloquence, declares That all fulfil the works of love and joy, – All but the outcast, Man.