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Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes

1792–1822 · English Romantic poet

Shelley was expelled from Oxford for atheism and drowned at twenty-nine. He thought poets were the true lawmakers of humanity.

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2 quotes traced to Percy Bysshe Shelley's own work or a reliable witness.

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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Source: "Ode to the West Wind" (1820)
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Source: A Defence of Poetry (1821)