“To be a poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful, in a word, the good which exists in the relation between existence and perception, and between perception and expression.”

Defining poetic perception as an encounter with truth, beauty and the relations between things. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Beauty
• Poetry
• Truth

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others.”

Presenting imagination as the foundation of moral sympathy. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Empathy
• Goodness
• Imagination

“Reason is the enumeration of quantities already known; and it is opposed to imagination.”

Distinguishing analytical reasoning from the creative power of imagination · A Defence of Poetry

• Art
• Poetry
• Truth