William Wordsworth Quotes
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
Wordsworth, William. Ecclesiastical Sketches. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822, p. 79.
It is ironic that Hitler obtained part of his sick philosophy from an American writer. Grant was advocating forced sterilization of mental defectives. However, in the context of Germany’s history of racism and anti-Semitism, Hitler carried the notion to its ultimate extreme. See {602054}
He was running for the Republican Presidential nomination at that time.
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).