“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo (1819)

About Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 – 1822

English Romantic poet, author of 'Ozymandias' and 'Adonais', an elegy for John Keats.

“Winter is come and gone, but grief returns with the revolving year.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

“Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.”

“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”

“Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.”

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”