William Wordsworth Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

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

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.388

• Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Poetry, Outcomes, Emotion

• Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

  William Wordsworth

  Great Inspirational, Emotion, Poetry Is

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