elthonta

Updated: June 4, 2025

'In the Greek Shakespeare, Sophocles, we find the image, Pollas d' odous elthonta phrontidos planois: a line of almost unfathomable depth of poetry; yet how simple are the images in which it is arrayed! "Coming to many ways in the wanderings of careful thought."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley