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Quote by William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes

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

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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. – William Wordsworth

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The best portion of a good mans life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – Mark Strand

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

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