Shelly on this years Burning Man

MichaelMN · Post by **MichaelMN** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:03 pm

I found this while rambling the Internet. Its seemed appropriate:

Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread:--behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin destinies; who ever weave
The shadows, which the world call substance, there.

I knew one who lifted it--he sought,
For his lost heart was tender, things to love
But found them not, alas! nor was there aught
The world contains, the which he could approve.
through the unheeding many did move,
A splendour among shadows, a bright blot
Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove
For truth, and like the Preacher found it not.

P. B. Shelley, Sonnet IV in Posthumous Poems

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:29 pm

I like his wife even more.

Did you know she thought his first name (Percy) was "sissified"?

Lorgasm · Post by **Lorgasm** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:34 am

Shelley would've made an awesome Burner.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:28 pm

Thank you Michael.
There are plenty of things to love, aren't there?
You don't have to lift the veil to find them, do you?
In Galatians it says that the Ten Commandments are a curse, you only need to follow one commandment.