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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#selfishness

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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#delight #game #hired #jest #lawyer

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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#drama #food #hatred #highest #highest order

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#generous #had #i #knew #money

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.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#beauty #blasphemy #brings #corruption #devours

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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#contain #ever #lightning #poetry #sword

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#happiest #minds #moments #poetry #record

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.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#because #care #cats #even #get

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#imagination #reason #respects #things

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


#idol #naked #revenge #worship






About Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes




Did you know about Percy Bysshe Shelley?

Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience was apparently influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. Their son Timothy Shelley of Fen Place (born c. "


Death

On 8 July 1822 less than a month before his 30th birthday Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his schooner Don Juan.

Yeats Karl Marx Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life most publiPercy Bysshe Shelleyrs and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested themselves for blasphemy or sedition.

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