Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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