...am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth, whether it existed before or not ; — for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love : they are all, in their sublime, creative...

...am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth, whether it existed before or not ; — for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love ; they are all, in their sublime, creative...

...am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth, whether it existed before or not;—for 1 have the same idea of all our passions as of Love ; they are all, in their sublime, creative...

...am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth, whether it existed before or not ; — for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love ; they are all, in their sublime, creative...

...am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth, whether it existed before or not ; — for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love ; they are all, in their sublime, creative...

...he " had no nature," meaning character. But he knew what the faculty was worth, and says finely, " The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream : he awoke and found it truth." He had an unerring instinct for the poetic uses of things, and for him they had no other use. We are...

...he " had no nature," meaning character. But he knew what the faculty was worth, and says finely, " The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream : he awoke and found it truth." He had an unerring instinct for the poetic uses of things, and for him they had no other use. We are...

...that he " had no nature," meaning character. But he knew what the faculty was worth, and says finely, "The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream: he awoke and found it truth." He had an unerring instinct for the poetic uses of things, and for him they had no other use. We are...

..."I am certain about nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth,...may be compared to Adam's dream : he awoke and found truth. ... I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive...

...Adam's dream" refers back to a fine phrase which had occurred shortly before in the same letter—" Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream; he awoke, and found it truth." In a letter written to George Keats and his wife, shortly after the death of Tom, conies a very positivs...