01c. 1807 ADHe wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
02c. 1807 ADThe man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
03c. 1807 ADIt is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
04c. 1807 ADAs a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
05c. 1807 ADFirst our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
06c. 1807 ADHistory is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
07c. 1807 ADReason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
09c. 1807 ADSee! the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
10c. 1807 ADHail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
11c. 1807 ADJanuary grey is here Like a sexton by her grave February bears the bier March with grief doth howl and rave And April weeps - but O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
12c. 1807 ADHow many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mold a pin or fabricate a nail!Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
13c. 1807 ADI consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
16c. 1807 ADHow many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
19c. 1807 ADDeath is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
20c. 1807 ADRevenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
21c. 1807 ADObscenity, 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 / quote ↗
22c. 1807 ADIn 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1807 ADPoetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote ↗
