Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change 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 be happy in the interim.

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.