Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Percy Bysshe ShelleyChange is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may b…
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.