The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

“In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry; and to be a poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful, in a word, the good which exists in the relation, subsisting, first between existence and perception, and secondly between perception and expression. Every original language near to its source is in itself the chaos of a cyclic poem: the copiousness of lexicography and the distinctions of grammar are the works of a later age, and are merely the catalogue and the form of the creations of poetry.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More

“beware, whilst you assume the softness of the dove, to forget not the cunning of the serpent.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More

“nonce-word,”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More

“If there are no reasons to suppose that we have existed before that period at which our existence apparently commences, then there are no grounds for supposing that we shall continue to exist after our existence has apparently ceased.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More

“Beware, O Man - for knowledge must to thee,
Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Works of P.B. Shelley