Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
More from: Percy Bysshe Shelley
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. -
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. -
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. -
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
More quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
- Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
- Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.