What did Percy Bysshe Shelley mean by: Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England Copy
+ Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Libel, Titles, Wealth, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Moon, Night, Sunset, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023February 5, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Innocence, Simplicity, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Limits, Time, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Beautiful, Mirrors, Poetry, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bitterness, Despair, Hope, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Air, Food, Light, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
+ War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Games, Peace, War, 0 - Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet · England
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
