William Wordsworth Poetry Quotations

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

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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.

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