Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 9
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.247
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.732, Pearson Education
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.946, Delphi Classics
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 544
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.28
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.151
'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.626, JHU Press
'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.248
'The Daemon of the World' part 1, l. 1 (a revision of the opening lines of 'Queen Mab')
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions
Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.1114, JHU Press
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612
1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.666, Pearson Education