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
“Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.”
Peter Bell the Third http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4697 (1819), Pt. III, st. 1
Good-Night http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/133/ (1819)
"On the Vegetable System of Diet" (c. 1815; published in the 1920s), in Complete Works, ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck, Volume 6 (New York: Gordian Press, 1965), pp. 343-344, original emphasis
“Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude
To live alone, an isolated thing?”
"The Solitary" (1810), st. 1
“I never thought before my death to see
Youth's vision thus made perfect.”
Origine: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 41
On a Future State (1815; publ. 1840)
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Canto IV
Queen Mab (1813)
Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)
To Night http://www.readprint.com/work-1379/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821), st. 1
“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.”
Canto V
Queen Mab (1813)
Article 23
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
Voice of Unseen Spirits, Act IV, l. 1
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“Can man be free if woman be a slave?”
Canto II, st. 43
The Revolt of Islam (1817)
Origine: To Jane: The Invitation (1822), l. 17
St. 7
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
Notes
Queen Mab (1813)
Variante: It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Origine: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 170
“To know nor faith, nor love, nor law, to be
Omnipotent but friendless, is to reign.”
Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 47
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“It doth repent me; words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
Prometheus, Act I, l. 304
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)