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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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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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