With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Bio: Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt was an English educational psychologist who made contributions also to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ.
