Quotes by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the >>

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its >>

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. >>

Quotations about Famine

Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. >>

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water >>

When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we s >>

There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe