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1 " The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
2 " Soul meets soul on lovers lips. "
3 " Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , The Complete Poems
4 " In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
5 " God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist. "
6 " God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. "
7 " The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar. "
8 " If winter comes, can spring be far behind? "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , Ode to the West Wind
9 " No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , Prometheus Unbound
10 " No more let life divide what death can join together. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , Adonais
11 " The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. "
12 " I have drunken deep of joy,And I will taste no other wine tonight. "
13 " I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet! "
14 " Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted "
15 " When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. "
16 " And the Spring arose on the garden fair,Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breastRose from the dreams of its wintry rest. "
17 " Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last! "
18 " A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
19 " I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , Shelley's Poetry and Prose
20 " Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. "
