Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire, it is the angel of high
thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.--_Mazzini._
Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music of
language.--_Chatfield._
The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature,
and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in
thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must
imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place
of another, and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species
must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination,
and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the
cause.--_Shelley._