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Percy Bysshe Shelley [1792-1822] English

Rank: 10
Poet (with poems)

Aestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language.

Poetry, Beauty, Food, Imagination, Sad, War, Change, Fear, Future, Good, Government, History, Love, Nature, Peace, Religion, Society, Time, Valentine's Day, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.	Love	101
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!		102
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.	Valentine's Day	103
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?	Nature	104
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.	Food	105
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.	History, Time	106
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.	Poetry	107
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	108
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.		109
The soul's joy lies in doing.	Wisdom	110
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.	Good, Imagination	111
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.		112
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.	War	113
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.	Fear, Future	114
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.	Poetry	115
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.		116
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	117
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, Peace	118
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.	Sad	119
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	120
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.		121
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.		122
First 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.		123
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?		124
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.		125
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.	Poetry	126
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, Food, Society	201
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.	Poetry	202
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.	Beauty, Poetry	203
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.		204
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.		205
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.	Religion	206
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.		207
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.		208
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.		209
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.		210
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.	Imagination	211
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.		212
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.		213
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.		214
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.		215
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.	Poetry	216
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.		217
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.		218
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.		219
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.		220

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