Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which humanity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sign to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
MY WORD OF THE DAY: HIEROPHANT
from OED:
a person, especially a priest in ancient Greece, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles
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