Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. Percy Bysshe Shelley divinity connections divine All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil Percy Bysshe Shelley positive-atheism spirit evil Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley thee solitude war Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city Percy Bysshe Shelley london cities heaven Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Percy Bysshe Shelley learning song men His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. Percy Bysshe Shelley knives losing lost For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think. Percy Bysshe Shelley men lying thinking One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley one-word thee feelings A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. Percy Bysshe Shelley lovely-lady light beauty The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Percy Bysshe Shelley powerful wisdom wise In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet Percy Bysshe Shelley infancy-is poet literature There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky... Percy Bysshe Shelley autumn sky fall He hath awakened from the dream of life. Percy Bysshe Shelley headstone memorial dream 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 pestilence genius men No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible. Percy Bysshe Shelley equality enough men Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world. Percy Bysshe Shelley liberty atheist enemy The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man. Percy Bysshe Shelley humble dog friendship Senseless is the breast and cold Percy Bysshe Shelley pulse nerves pain Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. Percy Bysshe Shelley race roots happiness And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Percy Bysshe Shelley house hands blood
