Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822. British romantic poet whose works include "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820), the lyric drama Prometheus Unbound (1820), and "Adonais" (1821), an elegy to John Keats.
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.
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.
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
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