“They are not studies of life, but life interpreted by the poet's vision.”

Distinguishing poetic vision from mere observation of life · Biography, George Eliot (1883)

• Art
• Poetry
• Truth

“The fact is, that Shelley, when flying to Nature away from the hard-hearted ways of men, was really leaping from the frying-pan into the fire.”

Rejecting the idea that escape from society necessarily means escape from conflict · Lecture, Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's (1886)

• Nature
• Truth

“The very intensity of her desire to seize life at all points seems to defeat itself.”

Observing how the hunger to possess every experience can become self-defeating · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Desire
• Time