“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
Music
“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
ValentinesdayAll Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
Poetry“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Nature“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
Religion“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“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
War“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“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”
Money“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
Valentinesday“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Sad“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”
Death“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Poetry“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“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“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“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“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Imagination“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
Fear“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
Food“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
Imagination