Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelleywas 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. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 August 1792
christian men rights
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
determination men wind
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
steps world lasts
O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb
tyrants rights arms
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.
marriage thinking mind
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.
time chained imprisonment
But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!
men poetry virtue
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
laughter mankind regeneration
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
music sweet memories
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
art law roots
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
beautiful mirrors poetry
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.
art gone-love slumber
Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
needs hypothesis proof
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.
inquiry crime forgiven
The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.