Poetry is not like reasoning. In this essay the image of the wind is introduced to illustrate a central aspect of the creative process: the process to write a poem starts when "some invisible influence, which Shelley compares to an inconstant wind, awakes the poet's mind and drives it to produce glorious poetry.

Poetry:is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world.

Poet: he is a person who has the most delicate sensibility and the most enlarged imagination. The poet is the wisest, the happiest and the most illustrious of men.