“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew We are many, they are few” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names.… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“ Abyssinias "I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: A huge four-footed limestone form Sits in the desert, sinking… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
“The radiance of which he speaks is the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing. The supreme quality is felt by the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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