Creative Quotations from . . .
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822) born on Aug 04
English poet. "He is famous for his grandeur, beauty and mastery of language, e.g., "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," 1816."
 
   
F
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

R
"Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
A
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
N
"Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors."
K
"Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: ""A Defence of Poetry," 1840."
N: ""A Defence of Poetry," 1840."
K: ""Adonais," Preface, 1821, first draft, later removed."



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