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

 

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


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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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We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope.

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