Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 – 1822
Shelley was one of the leading English romantic poets who had a strong feeling for individual liberty.
Literature & Music
In Percy Shelley’s poem Liberty, liberty is compared to a force of nature sweeping the globe, where “tyrants and slaves are like shadows of night” which will disappear in “the van of the morning light” (1824)
Literature & Music
Percy Bysshe Shelley on the new Constitution of Naples which he hoped would be “as a mirror to make … blind slaves see” (1820)
Property Rights
Percy Shelley on the two types of property [1820]