“Eloquence is the poetry of prose; poetry is the eloquence of verse.”

Neatly linking expressive prose and verse through eloquence · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Language
• Poetry
• Style

“The truth is, that poetry which does not find its way to the heart is scarcely deserving of the name.”

Arguing that genuine poetry must reach the emotions · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Emotion
• Poetry
• Truth

“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