Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Quoted

“Quotes”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley · Poetry

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

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

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.

Beauty

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

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Imagination