Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
More Quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Waking or asleep,Thou of death must deem
Things more true and deep
Than we mortals dream,
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whether my life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
His strong heart sunk and sickened with excess
Of love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mont Blanc yet gleams on high:-the power is there,
The still and solemn power of many sights,
And many sounds, and much of life and death.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Earth groans beneath religion's iron age, And priests dare babble of a God of peace Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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