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Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William Wordsworth
Feelings, Doe, Tedious
William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.3795, Delphi Classics

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth
Powerful, Poetry, Feelings
Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth
Powerful, Poetry, Feelings
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.388

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

William Wordsworth
Lakes, Water, Feelings

Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

William Wordsworth
Eye, Play, Feelings
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.172

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

William Wordsworth
Men, Feelings, Degrees
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.312, e-artnow

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