106 ordspråk av Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley föddes den 4 august 1792 och dog den 8 juli 1822 - whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Historien

A dream has power to poison sleep.

There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side

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.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

Helvede

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

What 'twas weak to do 'Tis weaker to lament, once being done

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

Litteratur

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

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