Ask why the sunlight not for ever
Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river,
Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,
Why fear and dream and death and birth
Cast on the daylight of this earth
Such gloom, -- why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?
(Hymn To Intellectual Beauty)
More Quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Does the dark gate of deathConduct to thy mysterious paradise,
O Sleep?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If we reason, we would be understood if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another s if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sounds that soothed his sleep,
The mystery and the majesty of Earth,
The joy, the exultation?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Hatred Quotes, Hope Quotes, Sadness QuotesBased on Keywords: aught, despondency, oer, rainbows, sunlight, weaves, yon
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
John Lithgow
Words make love with one another.
Andre Breton
The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
Russell Simmons