Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
More Quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley:
The serpent heard it flickerIn sleep, and, dreaming still, he crept afar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Peter was dull he was at first Dull,oh so dull, so very dull Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed Dull,beyond all conception, dull.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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And all the Dreams that watch'd Urania's eyes,
And all the Echoes whom their sister's song
Had held in holy silence, cried: "Arise!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Too happy they, whose pleasure sought
Extinguishes all sense and thought
Of the regret that pleasure leaves,
Destroying life alone, not peace!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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