Percy B Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a more.. more..

“ Percy B Shelley: Familiar acts are beautiful through love. #Familiarity #Familiarity

“ Percy B Shelley: There is no real wealth but the labor of man. #Labor #Labor

“ Percy B Shelley:At last, at the age of 17 I came across Shelley, whom no one had ever told me about. He remained for many years the man I loved most among the great men of the past. #Names #Names

“ Percy B Shelley: Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ Percy B Shelley:The more I see the more I doubt whether people ever really make aesthetic judgements at all. Everything is judged on political grounds which are then given an aesthetic disguise. When, for instance, Eliot can't see anything good in Shelley or anything bad in Kipling, the real underlying reason must be that one is a radical and the other a conservative, of sorts. #Responsibility#Responsibility

“ Percy B Shelley: The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. #Studying#Studying

“ Percy B Shelley: The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. #Imagination#Imagination

“ Percy B Shelley: In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. #Theater#Theater

“ Percy B Shelley:If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! #Love#Love

“ Percy B Shelley: Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. #Empire#Empire

“ Percy B Shelley: If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another s; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love. #Compatibility #Compatibility

“ Percy B Shelley:Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. #Fear #Fear

“ Percy B Shelley:Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ Percy B Shelley: Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth. #Change#Change

“ Percy B Shelley: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. #Bereavement#Bereavement

“ Percy B Shelley: The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume. #Dress#Dress

“ Percy B Shelley:Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ Percy B Shelley: 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#Government

“ Percy B Shelley: Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. #Nature#Nature

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