Origine: The butchering of harmless animals cannot fail to produce much of that spirit of insane and hideous exultation in which news of a victory is related altho' purchased by the massacre of a hundred thousand men. If the use of animal food be in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. (da On the Vegetable System of Diet, in Complete Works, a cura di Roger Ingpen e Walter E. Peck, vol. 6, Gordian Press, New York, 1965, pp. 343-344)
Percy Bysshe Shelley frasi celebri
“I poeti sono i legislatori misconosciuti del mondo.”
Origine: Citato in Corriere della Sera, 17 agosto 1992.
“So di essere uno di quelli che gli uomini non amano; ma sono di quelli di cui si ricordano.”
Origine: Citato in Charles Baudelaire, Lettre à Sainte-Beuve.
Origine: Da The Coliseum.
Lettere
Frasi sugli uomini di Percy Bysshe Shelley
Origine: Citato in Charles Morgan, La fontana, Mondadori, 1961.
Lettere
Origine: Da The Letters, Londra, 1912.
Origine: Da Ode a Napoli; citato in Vincenzo Pepe, La baia di Napoli in alcuni campioni di poesia… http://www.lacropoli.it/articolo.php?nid=312, lacropoli.it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Frasi e Citazioni
poesia Ti amerei
“L'inferno è una città che somiglia molto a Londra, una città con tanta gente e tanto fumo.”
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 87, p. 144.
Origine: Da Queen Mab; citato in Aa.Vv., Un gusto superiore: un modo nuovo di mangiare e di vivere, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Italia, 1992, p. 22.
Lettere
Origine: Da una lettera a Ralph Wedgwood (1766–1837); citato in Poesia n. 193, Crocetti 2005.
“Anche un po' di depressione è troppo.”
Origine: Da Lines of despair; citato in Serena Zoli, Giovanni B. Cassano, E liberaci dal male oscuro, TEA, Milano, 2009, p. 475. ISBN 978-88-502-0209-6
Origine: Da Ode al vento occidentale, traduzione di Roberto Sanesi.
Origine: By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system. (da A Vindication of Natural Diet, F. Pitman – J. Heywood, Londra – Manchester, 1884, p. 18 https://archive.org/stream/vindicationofnat00shelrich#page/18/mode/2up)
Origine: Da La necessità dell'ateismo (1813), Nessun Dogma, Roma, 2012, pp. 15-16.
da Ad un'allodola
Origine: In Poesie, a cura di Roberto Sanesi, Milano, 1983.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Frasi in inglese
On a Future State (1815; publ. 1840)
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
Not Shelley but the I Ching
Misattributed
To Jane. The keen Stars were twinkling; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Mont Blanc http://www.readprint.com/work-1366/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1816), st. 3
“The intense atom glows
A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.”
St. XX
Adonais (1821)
“On a poet's lips I slept
Dreaming like a love-adept
In the sound his breathing kept.”
Fourth Spirit, Act I, l. 737
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Demogorgon, Act IV, closing lines
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/br-text.html (1812), st. 1
“There is no sport in hate where all the rage
Is on one side.”
Lines to a Reviewer http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/section229.html (1821), l. 3
“He died,
Who was the Sire of an immortal strain,
Blind, old, and lonely.”
St. IV
Adonais (1821)
“He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe.”
Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 72
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
St. 1
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
Origine: A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
On a Future State (1815; publ. 1840)
“What! alive, and so bold, O earth?”
Written on hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Verses On A Cat" (1800), St. 2, as published in Life of Shelley (1858) by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, p. 21