Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,-
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley