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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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Poetry reveals the deeper, often unnoticed beauty in everyday things by changing how we see them. It makes ordinary objects feel fresh and new, as if we are experiencing them for the first time.

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