We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest.

NOTES: Shelley also says, "a poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." This divine attribute of poetry is not unlike Coleridge's conception of the primary Imagination. He cautions us, however, that although we want always to be able to imagine and to create, there is also a danger in allowing our innovations to enslave us. He ascribes a dualistic nature of the divine to poetry; it is both as "God and the Mammon of the world."