7 Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes on Creativity

Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes on creativity

94. Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

117. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

118. And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

128. My Song, I fear that thou wilt find but few Who fitly shalt conceive thy reasoning, Of such hard matter dost thou entertain; Whence, if by misadventure, chance should bring Thee to base company (as chance may do), Quite unaware of what thou dost contain, I prithee, comfort thy sweet self again, My last delight! tell them that they are dull, And bid them own that thou art beautiful.

153. He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely.

160. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

167. A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.