Shelley quotes

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop to speak to you And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new!

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Memorabilia'.

Like Shelleyand like Baudelaire it may be said of himthat he suffered, in his own person, the neurotic ills of an entire generation.

-Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw
  Of  T E Lawrence,'Lawrence of  Arabia'. Collected in Exhumations (1966).

They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends, (Lamps for my gloom, handsguiding where I stumble,) Quoting, for shallow conversational ends, What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered† How can they use such names and be not humble?

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  The Heart'sJourney, pt.15,'Grandeur of Ghosts'.

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'To Jane:The Recollection'.

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