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 the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. - William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth: "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 the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind."

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Actually	Contemplated	Contemplation	Disappears
Emotion	Exist	Feelings	Gradually
Itself	Kindred	Mind	Origin
Overflow	Poetry	Powerful	Produced
Reaction	Recollected	Species	Spontaneous
Subject	Takes	Till	Tranquillity

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