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Poet Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
- Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
- It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek…
- Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
- Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the…
- A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
- Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- Poet's food is love and fame.
- The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from…
- Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
- 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…
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