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Your Quotes for 4 August 2005 - Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm back, more or less ready to get back to work. I had a good time, I think I got some good pictures, I definitely ate well, and I'm sure this limp will go away in a few days. For today, Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, Warnham near Horsham, West Sussex, England on this day in 1792. I'm too tired to go dig up a real bio at this point; suffice it to say that he died young and at least one of my sources lists him under the category "Neurotic Poets".

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.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
     - All from Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822

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