Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822. British romantic poet whose works include "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820), the lyric drama Prometheus Unbound (1820), and "Adonais" (1821), an elegy to John Keats.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain, He is secure.
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,- A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field . . .
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