Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

English - Poet | August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

LoveBeautifulThroughFamiliarActs

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!

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SkyHarmonySummerThroughAutumn

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.

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CatsHappyThinkingCareKnowMood

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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BeautyPoetryWorldHiddenVeil

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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NothingBeenFasterThanLaurels

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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FoodDramaSelf-RespectHatredOrder

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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GoodGreatImaginationMoral

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

SorrowPleasureSweeterThanItself

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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WarGameLawyerDelightTradeHired

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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PoetrySwordLightningWouldContain

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.

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LifeBeautyFoodSocietyCorruption

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

MistakesYouthWorthAnythingUs

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