"I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:  it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility:  the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquility 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, Preface to
Lyrical Ballads
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