Shelley Quotes

Shelley Quote of the day

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave

He felt that every sorrow was less than that which separation must produce

The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation