“There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination.”

— Leigh Hunt

As quoted in The Farmer's Wife, Vol. 36 (1933), p. 72

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English critic, essayist, poet and writer 1784–1859

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