1. Cytaty
  2. Autorzy
  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley cytaty
strona 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley – angielski poeta i dramaturg. Przedstawiciel angielskiego romantyzmu.

✵ 4. Sierpień 1792 – 8. Lipiec 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley Fotografia
Percy Bysshe Shelley: 252 cytaty1 Polubienie

Percy Bysshe Shelley słynne cytaty

„Poezja zachowuje od zniszczenia tchnienie boskości w człowieku.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Źródło: Justyna Ziarkowska, W gorączce. Krytyka literacka Maurycego Mochnackiego i Mariana José de Larra, Dolnośląskie Wydawnictwo Edukacyjne, 2004, s. 128.

„Podróżnik, wracający z starożytnej ziemi,
Rzekł do mnie: „Nóg olbrzymich z głazu dwoje sterczy
Wśród puszczy bez tułowia. W pobliżu za niemi
Tonie w piasku strzaskana twarz. Jej wzrok szyderczy,

Zacięte usta, wyraz zimnego rozkazu
Świadczą, iż rzeźbiarz dobrze na tej bryle głazu
Odtworzył skryte żądze, co, choć w poniewierce,
Przetrwały rękę mistrza i mocarza serce.

A na podstawie napis dochował się cało:
«Ja jestem Ozymandias, król królów. Mocarze!
Patrzcie na moje dzieła i przed moją chwałą

Gińcie z rozpaczy!» Więcej nic już nie zostało…
Gdzie stąpić, gruz bezkształtny oczom się ukaże
I piaski bielejące w pustyni obszarze.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Przyjaźń, drogi balsam… Uśmiech pośród zachmurzonych twarzy; umiłowany promień słońca; uścisk w samotności; schronienie w trudnościach; radość w smutku.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

„Spójrz na me dzieło, o Potężny, i rozpaczaj.
… wokół szczątków
Tego kolosalnego wraku pustynia się roztacza,
Naga, dzika i płaska, bez końca ni początku.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandyas

Źródło: Ozymandias

„Codzienne obowiązki stają się piękne dzięki miłości.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

„O, jakże chciałbym być Antychrystem (…).”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist (…). (ang.)
Źródło: list do Thomasa Jeffersona Hogga, 3 stycznia 1811, cyt. za: Teddi Chichester Bonca, Shelley’s Mirrors of Love. Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority, SUNY Press, 1999, s. 18.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Cytaty po angielsku

“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Źródło: The Complete Poems

“Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound

The Earth, Act IV, l. 403
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXI
Adonais (1821)

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights
The fairest feelings of the opening heart,
Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil
Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love,
And judgment cease to wage unnatural war
With passion's unsubduable array.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab

Canto V
Queen Mab (1813)

“His fine wit
Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Letter to Maria Gisborne (1820), l. 240

“True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human phantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley Epipsychidion

Epipsychidion (1821)

“Sun-girt City, thou hast been
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills (1818)

“Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Article 27 <br class="br"> &quot;Declaration of Rights&quot; http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

“Be your strong and simple words
Keen to wound as sharpened swords,
And wide as targes let them be,
With their shade to cover ye.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

St. 74
(1819)

“The old laws of England — they
Whose reverend heads with age are gray,
Children of a wiser day;
And whose solemn voice must be
Thine own echo — Liberty!”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

St. 82
(1819)

“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Song to the Men of England http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/673/ (1819), st. 1

“No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Article 9 <br class="br"> &quot;Declaration of Rights&quot; http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

“Are ye, two vultures sick for battle,
Two scorpions under one wet stone,
Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle,
Two crows perched on the murrained cattle,
Two vipers tangled into one.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/section163.html (Published 1832), st. 4

“The lone couch of his everlasting sleep.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816), line 57

“Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab

Notes
Queen Mab (1813)

“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5

“Me — who am as a nerve o'er which do creep
The else unfelt oppressions of this earth,
And was to thee the flame upon thy hearth,
When all beside was cold: — that thou on me
Shouldst rain these plagues of blistering agony!”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Źródło: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 449

“The natural philosopher, in addition to the sensations common to all men inspired by the event of death, believes that he sees with more certainty that it is attended with the annihilation of sentiment and thought. He observes the mental powers increase and fade with those of the body, and even accommodate themselves to the most transitory changes of our physical nature. Sleep suspends many of the faculties of the vital and intellectual principle; drunkenness and disease will either temporarily or permanently derange them. Madness or idiotcy may utterly extinguish the most excellent and delicate of those powers. In old age the mind gradually withers; and as it grew and was strengthened with the body, so does it together with the body sink into decrepitude. Assuredly these are convincing evidences that so soon as the organs of the body are subjected to the laws of inanimate matter, sensation, and perception, and apprehension are at an end.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley

On a Future State (1815; publ. 1840)

“A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift —
A Love in desolation masked; — a Power
Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift
The weight of the superincumbent hour;
It is a dying lamp, a falling shower,
A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak
Is it not broken? On the withering flower
The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek
The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break.”

Help us translate this quote

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

St. XXXII
Adonais (1821)

Podobni autorzy

Robert Browning Fotografia
Robert Browning8
angielski poeta None
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fotografia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge33
poeta angielski None
William Blake Fotografia
William Blake19
angielski poeta, pisarz i malarz None
George Byron Fotografia
George Byron34
angielski poeta None
John Ruskin Fotografia
John Ruskin14
angielski krytyk i teoretyk sztuki None
Oscar Wilde Fotografia
Oscar Wilde186
angielski poeta, prozaik i dramatopisarz None
Jane Austen Fotografia
Jane Austen44
angielska pisarka None
Karol Dickens Fotografia
Karol Dickens37
angielski powieściopisarz None
Emily Brontë Fotografia
Emily Brontë8
angielska pisarka i poetka None
Arthur Rimbaud Fotografia
Arthur Rimbaud40
francuski poeta None