Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. - William Wordsworth

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.