Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

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

896

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.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

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.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

896

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