"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."
-William Wordsworth
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"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.“
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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
-William Wordsworth
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"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."
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"The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."
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"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
-William Wordsworth
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"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."
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