“The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, is a principal source of moral improvement.”

Linking intellectual discovery with humanity's moral development. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Growth
• Knowledge
• Science

“We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know.”

Arguing that imagination is needed not merely to invent but to perceive the significance of what is already known. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Creativity
• Imagination
• Knowledge

“Reason is the enumeration of quantities already known; imagination is the perception of the value of those quantities, both separately and as a whole.”

Distinguishing analytical reason from the synthesising power of imagination. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Imagination
• Knowledge
• Reason