Epipsychidion Quotes

“True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.

Epipsychidion”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion

“Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion

“There was a Being whom my spirit oft
Met on its visioned wanderings far aloft.

A seraph of Heaven, too gentle to be human,
Veiling beneath that radiant form of woman....”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion

“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms, and dream of waves, flowers, clouds, woods, rocks, and all that we read in their smiles, and call reality.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion

“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar;
Such difference without discord, as can make
Those sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake
As trembling leaves in a continuous air?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion