In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss. Aberjhani
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Even in the midst of our own world despair, Percy Bysshe Shelley was pointing out that there is still beauty and love to be found. When nations are exchanging murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, Shelley was saying that there is still beauty and love to be found. His poetry was his way of uplifting our spirits with hope for a better world.

Source: The American Poet Who Went Home Again

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