Instead of Percy Shelly's "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" we should take the pressure of the human individual and say, like I.A. Richards "Poetry is the unacknowledged legislation of the world".

Otherwise it's hard to make use of a lot of poems and other works... like Chomsky's analysis of Western power, policy, and media..
#PoetLegislators or #PoetryLegislation #PercyShelley #IARichards

"Poetry is the unacknowledged legislation of the world" --- I.A. Richards

> "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.." --- Shelley

In Defense of Poetry
(Helped Coleridge... according to Richards...)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm

#PoetLegislators #PoetryLegislation
#PercyShelley #IARichards

"In this case, we must embrace the song if not the singer"
#JeffreyStClair on #BruceSpringstein's
#StreetsOfMinneapolis got me thinking of Shelley and Richards lines, Chomsky's questionable relations with Epstein too...