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Poetry Quotes by William Wordsworth
- Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
- Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
- Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one…
- Poetry is the outcome of emotions 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
- Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the…
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
- Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
- poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
- 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…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden