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“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.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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''[http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html a defence of poetry]'' (1821)
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