“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
History
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
Poetry“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
War“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
Fear“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Nature“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
Age“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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Beauty“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.”
Beauty“Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.”
Government“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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Valentinesday“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
Money“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“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
Food“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
Music“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Poetry