Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."