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March 7, 2008
the unchangeable forms of human nature
A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There is this difference between a story and a poem, that a story is a catalogue of detached facts, which have no other bond of connexion than time, place, circumstance, cause and effect; the other is the creation of actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature, as existing in the mind of the creator, which is itself the image of all other minds.
Shelley - A Defense of Poetry
Posted by amin at March 7, 2008 10:50 PM