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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The life of Camillus, the death of Regulus; the expectation of the senators, in their godlike state, of the victorious Gauls; the refusal of the republic to make peace with Hannibal, after the battle of Cannae, were not the consequences of a refined calculation of the probable personal advantage to result from such a rhythm and order in the shows of life, to those who were at once the poets and the actors of these immortal dramas. The imagination beholding the beauty of this order, created it out of itself according to its own idea; the consequence was empire, and the reward everlasting fame. These things are not the less poetry, quia carent vate sacro [because they lack a sacred bard]. They are the episodes of that cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of men.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. . . . . . . They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source