“Important, therefore, as may be the office of the imagination in poetry, the great spring of poetry is emotion.”

Placing emotion at the source of poetic creation · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Emotion
• Imagination
• Poetry

“The feelings and the imagination, when skilfully touched, act reciprocally on each other.”

Showing how emotion and imagination strengthen one another · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

• Emotion
• Imagination
• Mind

“The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain.”

Defending open political discussion as a fundamental liberty · Editorial, The Death of Lovejoy, 18 November 1837

• Communication
• Liberty
• Politics