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
against beauty blasphemy brings corruption devours divine english-poet forever forth monster society
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.
english-poet manhood mistakes spend worth
All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
fame poet
Poet's food is love and fame.
writing poetry mind
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
infancy-is literature poet
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
political poetry moral
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
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.
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.
life poetry world
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
poetry firsts acorns
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
beautiful mirrors poetry
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
beauty poetry veils
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
lightning poetry-is
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
earth kiss kisses-and-kissing sunlight thou worth
The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?