Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Poetry
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
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Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
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A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.
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