Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Category Archive: Percy Bysshe Shelley
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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.
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.
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
The soul’s joy lies in doing.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.