Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Imagination

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Imagination, Moral, Instruments

1821 A Defence of Poetry.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men, Expression, Imagination

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Moving, Thinking, Imagination

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.5, Pearson Education