Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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