'Poetry is the breath and the finer spirit of all knowledge' is taken from the writings of-

• William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic poet.
• His famous quotations:
- 'Poetry is the breath and the finer spirit of all knowledge',
- 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'
- 'Ten thousand saw at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly lance',
- 'Child is the father of man',
- 'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting',
- 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her',
- 'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher'.
Source: Encyclopedia of Britannica and Website Lecture.