"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." ― Percy Bysshe Shelley Topic(s): Poetry More From Percy Bysshe Shelley "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder." "History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man." "Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age." More In Poetry "The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."― Robert Penn Warren "I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there."― David Knopfler "For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."― Eugenio Montale