Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Pain, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Imagination, Moral, Instruments

  1821 A Defence of Poetry.

• Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Strength, Imagination, Add

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.36

• Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Expression, Imagination

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
  That to divide is not to take away.
  Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
  Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
  Imagination! which from earth and sky,
  And from the depths of human phantasy,
  As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
  The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
  Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
  Of its reverberated lightning.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Love Is, Arrows

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.282

• There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Food, Men, Thinking

• Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Differences, Imagination, Fantasy

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.1

• We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.5, Pearson Education

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