{"author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley","total_quotes":108,"quotes":[{"text":"Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["atheism","reason"],"id":1881,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["bysshe","inspirational","percy","romantic","shelly"],"id":3245,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["god"],"id":6779,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathlessrapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, likethe enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one belovedsinging to you alone.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["contemplation","love","lucidity","nature"],"id":16382,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["war"],"id":16467,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"How many a rustic Milton has passed by  Stifling the speechless longings of his heart  In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies  no longer tameless then  To mould a pin  or fabricate a nail!","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["work"],"id":17124,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["power-of-words"],"id":17880,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["despair","hope","revenge"],"id":32164,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"The being called God...Bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["god"],"id":35531,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"},{"text":"Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, the waters, and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart.","author":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","tags":["nature"],"id":35799,"author_id":"Percy+Bysshe+Shelley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":108,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}