Quotes About Shelley

The only thing I could distinguish was the bright moon, and I fixed my eyes on that with pleasure.

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate.

I postponed this attempt for some months longer; for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I shall fail.

You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and, instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.

do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.

I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.

Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy—to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.

I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent; but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.

paused some time to reflect on all he had related, and the various arguments which he had employed.

must perform my engagement,4 and let the monster depart with his mate, before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of an union from which I expected peace.

The tranquillity which I now enjoyed did not endure. Memory brought madness with it; and

followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected

feliz de haber encontrado un refugio ante las inclemencias de la estación y, sobre todo, ante la barbarie del hombre.

shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price perhaps of the existence of the whole human race.

Frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it-thus!

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Who anyway can define the borderline between gnosis and poetic knowledge? The two modes are not identical, and yet they interpenetrate one another. Are we to call the gnosis of Novalis, Blake, and Shelley a knowledge that is not poetic? In domesticating the Sufis in our imagination, Corbin renders Ibn 1 Arabi and Suhrawardi as a Blakl· and a Shelley whose precursor is not Milton but the Koran.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

In both these instances the corpses were prepared by replacing its blood with a brew made by the practitioner. As an aside, it is said that the poet Shelley read Lucan's work to his wife Mary and that this inspired her celebrated work, Frankenstein.

Some of the verse of Tennyson shows immense technical skill, is better than anything of Shelley or Swinburne.43 I cite Tennyson's consummate skill to show that it is not merely a question of the slipshod, or of a degeneration of the ear. It is something deeper than that. It is a further stage in the disintegration of the intellect, the further separation of sound, image and thought.

Like Shelley, in order to change and engage the process of trust building, I, too, needed to come to terms with the truth that God was ultimately the change agent and healer. He is the true trust builder. He is the master architect and artist shaping any sculpture. If both Shelley and I lean on him for our journey of rebuilding our relationship, then neither of us must lean against each other.

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.