“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Imagination
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
SadAll Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”
War“We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
Money“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Nature“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Beauty“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
Food“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
Change“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
War“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”
Death“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Poetry“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
Poetry“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Best“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
Music“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Valentinesday“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
Hope“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
Poetry“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
Age