Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last! Percy Bysshe Shelley kissing lasts long I love Love - though he has wings, Percy Bysshe Shelley home life art And bid them love each other and be blest: Percy Bysshe Shelley love-each-other guests life The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. Percy Bysshe Shelley religious war mean The flood of time is rolling on; Percy Bysshe Shelley rolling gone time A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts. Percy Bysshe Shelley poetry mirrors beautiful What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Percy Bysshe Shelley garlic young thinking My father Time is weak and gray Percy Bysshe Shelley time father hands Music, when soft voices die, Percy Bysshe Shelley music sweet memories In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. Percy Bysshe Shelley atheism atheist facts There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone. Percy Bysshe Shelley patriotic eye wind And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Percy Bysshe Shelley glowing flower air Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies. Percy Bysshe Shelley passion eye atheist Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful. Percy Bysshe Shelley strength imagination add Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. Percy Bysshe Shelley forgiveness dust blood A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man. Percy Bysshe Shelley atheist men religion Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Percy Bysshe Shelley clay cold hope Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. Percy Bysshe Shelley light air food Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley inspiration writing moving I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. Percy Bysshe Shelley moral political poetry
