Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.
Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Concerning God freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be all that vain men imagine or believe or hope can paint or suffering may achieve we descanted.
Concerning God freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be all that vain men imagine or believe or hope can paint or suffering may achieve we descanted.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise government will of itself decay.
Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise government will of itself decay.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Fear not for the future weep not for the past.
Fear not for the future weep not for the past.
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep and it is lifted.
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep and it is lifted.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness so that one may be happy in the interim.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness so that one may be happy in the interim.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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.
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.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.