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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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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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The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. – William Wordsworth

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. – H. L. Mencken

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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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I was kind of an outcast in school cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didnt know what to make of me. – Christina Perri

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