“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism (1811)

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.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”