“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”
Death
“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
FoodAll Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
Poetry“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“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
Religion“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“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“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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Poetry“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
Fear“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Valentinesday“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
Music“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“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“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
History“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Imagination“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Beauty“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
Money