Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Writing
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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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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.
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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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