In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
