We Are as Clouds That Veil the Midnight Moon — Percy Shelley Quote Journal

The move is done. The old house belongs to strangers now. You want to get down what the kitchen sounded like before you forget.

"We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon…"
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Mutability," from Alastor, and Other Poems, 1816. We check every line against a primary source.

Two years later, Mary Shelley put half of this poem into Frankenstein. Victor recites it on a glacier above Chamonix.

Write it tonight. Tomorrow it will have shifted.

Read the full story behind this quote: Percy Shelley Was Always in Mary's Shadow. He Shouldn't Be.

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