Quotes by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less a >>

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or ye >>

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the >>

Quotations about Translation

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the tran >>

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is real >>

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word >>

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe