Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelleywas one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 August 1792
ignorant force forces-of-nature
Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
mistake novelty moral
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.
snakes clouds unbound
Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.
selfishness twins twin-sister
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
vegetables race giving
By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
vegetables water adoption
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
agony tea small-talk
Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.
divinity connections divine
Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.
hope wrecks prometheus
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
hope despair bitterness
Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
hope clay cold
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
steps world lasts
O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb
titles wealth libel
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
lakes water exceed
This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.