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

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

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

William Wordsworth
Wisdom, Book, Poetry
William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.131, London E. Moxon 1850.

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Poetry, Behinds

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

William Wordsworth
Poetry, Spirit, Breaths
'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth
Poetry, Outcomes, Emotion

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

William Wordsworth
Poetry, Enough

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

William Wordsworth
Poetry, Comfort, Breathe

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