“This is the enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry.”

Locating poetry's origin in deeply felt enthusiasm · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Creativity
• Emotion
• Poetry

“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite it the most powerfully and delightfully.”

Describing poetry as the deliberate shaping of thought into imaginative experience · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Creativity
• Poetry
• Thought

“The imagination is the most active and the least susceptible of fatigue of all the faculties of the human mind.”

Celebrating the extraordinary endurance of the imaginative faculty · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Creativity
• Imagination
• Mind