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  • Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.40
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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