"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted." ― Percy Bysshe Shelley Topic(s): Poetry More From 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." "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." "History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man." More In Poetry "Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."― A. R. Ammons "There is probably nothing wrong with art for art’s sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago."― Allen Tate "Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."― H. L. Mencken