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Poetry Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
- 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.
- Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
- Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
- Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet…
- 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…
- Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
- All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
- I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
- 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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