John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5874 Pery Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5874 |
| AUTHOR: | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| QUOTATION: | Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A Defence of Poetry. |
| WORKS: | Percy Bysshe Shelley Collection. |
| Note 1. See Coleridge, Quotation 71. [back] |