Percy Bysshe Shelley
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821
Posted on February 20, 1999 at 7:01 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
Posted on June 11, 2003 at 4:57 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, on Dante Alighieri in A Defence of Poetry
Posted on May 17, 2001 at 1:46 PM
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