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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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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I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. – William Wordsworth

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. – William Wordsworth

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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. – Simon Armitage

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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. – Aristotle

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