Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? 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. Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. The soul's joy lies in doing. 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! There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
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