Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it … - William Wordsworth

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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.

William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads.

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