Percy Bysshe Shelley citáty
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dátum narodenia: 4. august 1792
Dátum úmrtia: 8. júl 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley /ˌpɝsi ˌbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/ bol popredný anglický romantický básnik. Je považovaný za jedného z najlepších lyrických básnikov píšúcich po anglicky.
Foto: After Amelia Curran / Public domain
Citáty Percy Bysshe Shelley
„Niektorí ľudia vedia opravovať iba cudzie názory, ale nie vlastné.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Čím viac sa učíme, tým viac odhaľujeme svoju nevedomosť.“
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Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
„He is a portion of the loveliness
Which once he made more lovely.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonaïs
St. XLIII
Adonais (1821)
„Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.“
Zdroj: The Complete Poems
St. 18
To a Skylark (1821)
Zdroj: The Complete Poems
„Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, kniha Ode to the West Wind
St. I
Ode to the West Wind (1819)
„And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark
St. 2
To a Skylark (1821)
Kontext: Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest,
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.
„With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam
Canto V, st. 23
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
St. 8
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonaïs
St. XXXVIII
Adonais (1821)
Kontext: He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;
Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now -
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love's Philosophy
Love's Philosophy (1819), st. 2
