Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley -
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley -
- History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley -
- We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais
- Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley -
- Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley -
- The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley -
- A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.