"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
- "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."
- "Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
More In Poetry
- "They need to learn poetry. They don’t need to learn about poetry. They don’t need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don’t need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."― Peter Davison
- "Poetry is composing for the breath."― Peter Davison
- "I was trained as an actress. But I wasn’t a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up."― Jenny Eclair