The poet is not set apart from other persons by genius or any qualitative difference.
Emotion is more important, closer to the real essence of life, than is intellect.
However, Wordsworth is not writing for those people. Man does not live by bread alone . . . Unless you become as little children . Take that, Ezra Pound. We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us for pleasure alone.