"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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number!"
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Ye are many — they are few."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Nothing in the world is single; all things, by a law divine, in one another’s being mingle. Why not I with thine?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley"The sunlight clasps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Fear not the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Can man be free if woman be a slave?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate’er it touches."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Nothing beside remains: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of Eternity."
Percy Bysshe Shelley