Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by-

• William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic poet.
• His famous quotations:
- 'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting',
- 'Child is the father of man',
- 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her',
- 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings',
- 'Poet is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge',
- Every great poet is a teacher.
- 'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher'.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.