“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”

Placing poetry at the living heart of human knowledge · Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802

• Poetry
• Truth

“There is a special character of greatness about humility for it implies that a man can, in an unusual degree, estimate the greatness of what is above us.”

Linking humility with the ability to recognise realities greater than oneself · Conversation, recollected by Aubrey de Vere

• Faith
• Truth

“Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before.”

defining genius by achievement rather than promise · Essay, Supplementary to the Preface, 1815

• Art
• Truth