Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

- 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

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

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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