The poet is called a creator because he creates in an ideal world, according to our desires, what is lacking in the world of reality.

That man would be completely happy whose desires aroused the appropriate thoughts and activities, and whose activities attained their end in gratification,—between whose desires and experience there was perfect correspondence.

An image drawn from recent experience may have transferred to it a feeling which first belonged to an experience much older.

The poet is seldom or never merely describes nature; he inevitably beautifies and glorifies it,

The poet after all belongs himself to an age and country. Shakespeare must attempt to present the universal in terms of Elizabethan England.