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

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Thats one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does ones little turn – that youre just part of the great crop, as it were. – Paul Muldoon

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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