Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Quoted

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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley · Poetry

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Money

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Food

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Age

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Poetry