"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present, the words which express what they understand not, the trumpets which sing 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 Shelley in A Defence of Poetry
Hierophant: En la antigua Grecia, personas con una capacidad especial para identificar lo sagrado, estaban encargados de reunir a la gente para dirigir los ritos necesarios en honor a las diferentes divinidades.
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