Chunderban Desai quotes:
"'"Let me write a nation's songs, and I care not who may write its laws."'" (See here.)
Percy Shelley wrote that poets are unacknowledged legislators. This quotation also appears as:
"Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
William Gibson and/or Bruce Sterling responded that science fiction writers are the court jesters of the world. (Googling discloses different sources for quotations.)
Poul Anderson quotes Shelley. See here.
A very literary breakfast post.
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