Quote Of The Day: P.B. Shelley

"Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change; it subdues to union under its light yoke all irreconcilable things." ~P.B. Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' Only reason this quote makes the blog is because even though I liked it a lot, I couldn't find a proper home for it in my essay on the aspirational quality of Romanticism. I just didn't have the heart to send it off into the cold and dark cyber space abyss.