Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPercy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Real Name:Daniel Hernandez
Walk of life:Poet
Born:4 August 1792, Horsham, United Kingdom
Died:8 July 1822, Lerici, Italy
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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