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Percy Bysshe Shelley — Portrait after a picture by After Amelia Curran (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

British Romantic poet

1792–1822

24 quotes, most often on Poetry, Love and Power.

Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
Hellas (1821), l. 195
- Power
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Ozymandias (1818)In context
- Power
- Time
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
Queen Mab (1813), Canto III
- Freedom
- Power
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.”
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
Ozymandias (1818)In context
- Power
- Pride

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