„Poezja zachowuje od zniszczenia tchnienie boskości w człowieku.”
Źródło: Justyna Ziarkowska, W gorączce. Krytyka literacka Maurycego Mochnackiego i Mariana José de Larra, Dolnośląskie Wydawnictwo Edukacyjne, 2004, s. 128.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: 252 cytaty1 Polubienie
Percy Bysshe Shelley słynne cytaty
„O, jakże chciałbym być Antychrystem (…).”
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
“Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.”
Peter Bell the Third http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4697 (1819), Pt. III, st. 1
Good-Night http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/133/ (1819)
"On the Vegetable System of Diet" (c. 1815; published in the 1920s), in Complete Works, ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck, Volume 6 (New York: Gordian Press, 1965), pp. 343-344, original emphasis
“I never thought before my death to see
Youth's vision thus made perfect.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Epipsychidion
Źródło: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 41
On a Future State (1815; publ. 1840)
Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)
To Night http://www.readprint.com/work-1379/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821), st. 1
“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab
Canto V
Queen Mab (1813)
Article 23 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
Voice of Unseen Spirits, Act IV, l. 1
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“Can man be free if woman be a slave?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam
Canto II, st. 43
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
Źródło: To Jane: The Invitation (1822), l. 17
St. 7 <br class="br"> Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab
Notes
Queen Mab (1813)
Wariant: It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Źródło: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 170
“To know nor faith, nor love, nor law, to be
Omnipotent but friendless, is to reign.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 47
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“It doth repent me; words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
Prometheus, Act I, l. 304
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
