Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. (William Wordsworth)

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

William Wordsworth

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