AN ARTIST'S POWER “Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Early 18th-century Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley believed those who held sway over the imagination could change the world. While the philosopher tries to answer life’s most obscure questions with verbal reasoning, the poet, the artist, and the musician ask and answer wordlessly through the imagination. The arts hold a mysterious transcendent power, speaking to us more potently tha