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William Wordsworth is one of the best writers to explore the connectedness of the human soul and the natural world. I see him as a kind of mystic who celebrates the powerful non-rational ways of knowing through sense experience, intuition and unconscious, instinctive response.
These are some beautiful lines from The Prelude, Book 1 – read them slowly and more than once to get the full effect – they are not to be rushed!
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I held unconscious intercourse with beauty
Old as creation, drinking in a pure
Organic pleasure from the silver wreaths
Of curling mist, or from the level plain
Of waters coloured by impending clouds.
Flowering Poverello 