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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes (332 quotes)
 | “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: The Mask of Anarchy (1819) |
| “We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: Hellas (1821) |
| “Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Galignani, 1841), p. 8, "Queen Mab" |
| Source/Notes: Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated) (2013 edition), Delphi Classics - ISBN: 9781909496071 |
| “I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: Julian and Maddalo (1819) |
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| “Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: A Defence of Poetry (1821) |
| “Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: Epipsychidion (1821) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born: August 4, 1792
Died: July 8, 1822 (aged 29)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Bio: Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife.
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