The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThis lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYMusic, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYBefore man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYJoy, once lost, is pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYNothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFear not for the future, weep not for the past.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYRise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSoul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIn fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY