"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "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."
- "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 pleasures of his species must become his own."
- "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
More In Beauty
- "Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I’m recuperating now. I’m on a very bland diet. But, uh, I’m lucky, I was just lucky, that’s all."― Rube Goldberg
- "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."― Walter Hagen
- "Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever."― Zachary Levi