Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
A Defence of Poetry (1821)Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
A Defence of Poetry (1821)Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.Julian and Maddalo (1819), l. 543- A Defence of Poetry (1821)
- To a Skylark (1820)In context





