Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.


Percy Wynham Lewis

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men im...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avo...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive C...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells a...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain we...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore,...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
...What are numbers knit
By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of hi...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
PERCY H. JOHNSON
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should b...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as sca...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; The...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have h...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pai...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY