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 WordsworthLaying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
William WordsworthLet the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
William Wordsworth