Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the wo... -Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley , Poet
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes to Explore

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought....
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddes...
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade....
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder....
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering m...
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....
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world....
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds....

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...