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A Defence of Poetry – P.B. Shelley

In the infancy of society every author is a poet, because language itself is poetry; and to be a poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful, in a word the good which exists in the relation subsisting first between existence and perception, and secondly between perception and expression.

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