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All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Source: Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 2nd ed., 1801.
-- William Wordsworth, (Apr 7 1770-1850), English poet; His Lyrical Ballads, 1798 are noted for their worship of nature and humanitarianism; poet laureate, 1843-50.

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