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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#reason #truth #communication

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#kiss #poetry #romantic #romanticism #romantic

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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#joy #poetry #attitude

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#to-a-skylark #music

What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? What ignorance of pain?


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#to-a-skylark #love

[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#poetry #beauty

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#art

In friendships I had been most fortunate Yet never saw I one whom I would call More willingly my friend


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#friendship #friendship

No more alone through the world's wilderness, Although I trod the paths of high intent, I journeyed now: no more companionless


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#relationship

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#beautiful #familiar #love #through






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Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience was apparently influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. Their son Timothy Shelley of Fen Place (born c. "


Death

On 8 July 1822 less than a month before his 30th birthday Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his schooner Don Juan.

Yeats Karl Marx Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life most publiPercy Bysshe Shelleyrs and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested themselves for blasphemy or sedition.

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