Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Writing

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Writing, Poetry, Mind

'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821, published 1840)

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Writing, Names

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1862). “Relics of Shelley”, p.190

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Writing, Criticism, Would Be

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.82, 谷月社

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Moving, Inspiration, Writing

A Defence of Poetry (written 1821) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Twain 104