“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, A Defence of Poetry (1821)

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.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“There be none of Beauty's daughters with a magic like thee; and like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”

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

“There is a science of intelligent living, an art of being fully human, in which we all can and ought to be creative.”