Top 15 Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

"Ozymandias"

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which 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 decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

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.

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.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

No more let life divide what death can join together.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.