Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul of man is a mirror of the universe.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.

The world is a theatre, the earth is a stage, and mankind are the actors.

The future is a dark forest, but we must go on.

The poet is a creator, not an imitator.

I am a lover of liberty, and I would rather die than live a slave.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or even touched, they are felt with the heart.

The poet is a prophet, and his words are the seeds of the future.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Hell is a city much like London.

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert...'

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory.

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies.

He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now.

Obscurity is the realm of poetry.

A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.

Government is an evil thing.

The vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor.