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«Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
legislator, legislators, unacknowledged
«The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
concealed, indicate, majestic, The Majestic, vesture
«January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«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 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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«It might make one in love with death, to be buried in so sweet a place.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«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 may achieve, we descanted.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.»
«Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.»
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