A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

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