Quotation by

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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Wordsworth means that poetry comes from intense emotions that arise naturally and suddenly. However, these feelings are shaped and expressed only after the poet calmly thinks back on them later.

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