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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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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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