Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Percy Bysshe Shelley on age
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 on 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. Percy Bysshe Shelley on beauty
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley on best
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley on change
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley on death
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. Percy Bysshe Shelley on food
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley on food
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley on government
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley on history
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley on hope
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley on imagination
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley on imagination
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. Percy Bysshe Shelley on money
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. Percy Bysshe Shelley on music
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley on nature
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley on peace
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley on poetry