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“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”
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- Source:
- A Defence of Poetry.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ecf6c8fc08bdceeb7b3fc4c300418d80d555babd570c04f476f98ddfeff24810
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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