who said child is the father of man?

Answer 1

Many people have said this quote but i thought i can quote the following- Say how do you feel-

‘THE CHILD is father to the man.’
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
‘The child is father to the man.’
No; what the poet did write ran,
‘The man is father to the child.’
‘The child is father to the man!’
How can he be? The words are wild.

-by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Answer 2

"The Child is father of the Man" is part of the short introduction to one of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, generally called the Intimations Ode. Like other Romantic poets Wordsworth valued childhood highly because it is then that our bond with the entire organic world ("rocks and stones and trees") is felt instinctively and strongly. As opposed to those who think that the best thing that happens to a child is that it acquires reason and grows up, Wordsworth believed that it is our connection with childhood, when imagination, wonder, and fantasy are very active, that heals and restores us. Thus instead of the man being the father of the child, the child is the father of the man: the Romantic paradox.

Answer 3

You! You just said it. The proof is that soon you will be the father of man yourself, and when your son will grow to a man he, in his turn will become the father of another man! The philosophy is so deep that it dizzies me.

Answer 4

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each other by natural piety.

'My heart leaps up when I behold' (1807)

William Wordsworth 1770-1850
An English Poet

Answer 5

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

Answer 6

if your talking about the song

it was a song by blood sweat and tears

the titile track to their debut album

Answer 7

you