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
“Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”
Origine: Hellas (1821), l. 195
Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870)
St. 4
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
Demogorgon, Act II, sc. iv, l. 110
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (3 January 1811)
Article 25
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
Spirit of the Hour, Act III, sc. iv, l. 200
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“We must prove design before we can infer a designer.”
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/shly310.txt
Alternate: Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/shelleydeism.htm
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
Prometheus, Act I, l. 638
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
A Dirge http://poetryarchive.bravepages.com/RSTU_poets/shelley_percy.b.htm#dirge (1821)
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples http://www.readprint.com/work-1373/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1818), st. 5
The Sensitive Plant http://www.kalliope.org/digt.pl?longdid=shelley2003060601 (1820), Pt. I, st. 1
Origine: Julian and Maddalo http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel115.html (1819), l. 14
“Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!”
Origine: Hellas (1821), l. 682
Fourth Spirit, Act I, l. 742
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“From the great morning of the world when first
God dawned on Chaos.”
St. XIX
Adonais (1821)
“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
St. IV
Ode to the West Wind (1819)