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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.


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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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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!


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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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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