Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
Romantic poet
From the Preface to the second edition of 'Lyrical Ballads,' his foundational critical statement on the nature and origin of poetry, emphasizing intuition and emotion.
1800
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