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“I believe it is each man's task to awaken his own soul. His soul is that part of him not subject to death and decay; that part of him made alive to truth and beauty. If he has no soul he is a brute. And where does this soul go, at death? said Byron. That is unknown, answered Shelley; the becoming of the soul, not its going, should be our concern. The mystery of life is on earth, not elsewhere.”

Soul Self Development Eternity Personal Development Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley

Book:Frankissstein: A Love Story

Source: Frankissstein: A Love Story

“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names. Thomas Love survives his beloved elder brother Percy Bysshe who died in a sailing accident. Percy Bysshe, buried at sea. The name and the man, a strange attractor. Everything is true.”

Names Fate Wordplay Be My Wolff Emma Richler Romantics Tempting Fate Percy Bysshe Shelley

Book:Be My Wolff

Source: Be My Wolff

“I suspect the study of English literature is doing you no good, it's full of all sorts of romantic high-flown nonsense. You've been reading Shelley." "I plead guilty to that crime.”

Humor Romantic Dialogue Iris Murdoch The Green Knight English Literature Percy Bysshe Shelley

Book:The Green Knight

Source: The Green Knight

“Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.”

Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley Skylark

Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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.”

Politics Capitalism Competition University Humanities Percy Bysshe Shelley Tuition Fees Uk 2010 Uk Student Protest

Author:Terry Eagleton

“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very good.” “I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.”

Marriage Isolation Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Futility Of Marriages Epipsychidion Longest Journey

Book:The Longest Journey

Source: The Longest Journey