"Child is the father of the man" - This famous quote is from -

"Child is the father of the man" – এই বিখ্যাত লাইনটি William Wordsworth-এর কবিতা “My Heart Leaps Up” থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে।

• My Heart Leaps Up/ The Rainbow:
১৮০২ সালে প্রকাশিত এই কবিতাটি একটি short lyric poem.
- The poem is also called The Rainbow.
- Like many of his poems from this period, "My Heart Leaps Up" was inspired by nature, as the speakers describes the feeling of joy upon seeing a simple rainbow.
- The poem also appreciates the importance of carrying child-like enthusiasm and wonder throughout life, an idea that Wordsworth returns throughout much of his work.

• William Wordsworth, ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের Romantic Period এর অন্যতম কবি।
- William Wordsworth is regarded as one of the central figures in the initiation of English Romanticism.

• His famous quotations:
- 'Child is the father of man',
- 'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting',
- 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her',
- 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings',
- 'Poet is the breath and final speed of knowledge',
-'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher'.

Source: Britannica.