Adonais Immortality Quotes

[…] his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity! (8-9)

Though Adonais' body is dead, his fame will last for eternity. That's one way to live forever.

Nought we know, dies. (177)

Nothing on this earth really dies, he says. They just become something else. He's summing up his entire view on mortality right there.

Far from these carrion kites that scream below;
He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;
Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now. (335-337)

He's high above us, says the speaker, and we can't reach him. The folks up there "endure" forever; they're eternal.