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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes 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 | |