Best quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley on Poetry

  • Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley