Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

In short, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

So much for Shelley's declaration that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

More than most, they appreciated the truth of the old saying that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

IN the area of human affairs, it has been written, poets are the world's unacknowledged legislators.

The writer as unacknowledged legislator, maybe, but nevertheless visibly engaged with their own society.

They were its secret leaders, its unacknowledged legislators; it was their world and they ruled.

The gentleman from Whitehall not only knew best; he was the unacknowledged legislator of the world, who had (indirectly at least) won the war.

Shelley once called poets the "unacknowledged legislators of the world.