William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworthwas a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 April 1770
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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In common things that round us lieSome random truths he can impart, --The harvest of a quiet eyeThat broods and sleeps on his own heart.
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Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.
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Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;The Form remains, the Function never dies.