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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
— William Wordsworth
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
— William Wordsworth
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
— William Wordsworth
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'dAnd tongues that utter'd wisdom
better none — William Wordsworth
A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
— William Wordsworth
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!
— William Wordsworth
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
— William Wordsworth
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
— William Wordsworth
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth
Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
— William Wordsworth
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.
— William Wordsworth
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
— William Wordsworth
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,
In dignity of being we ascend. — William Wordsworth
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
— William Wordsworth
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
— William Wordsworth
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
— William Wordsworth
Friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us
— William Wordsworth
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
— William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us.
— William Wordsworth
Nor less I deem that there are PowersWhich of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness — William Wordsworth
Our meddlesome intellect misshapen the beauteous form of things.
— William Wordsworth
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.
— William Wordsworth
And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
— William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
— William Wordsworth
...whom I have lovedWith such communion, that no place on earth
Can ever be a solitude to me — William Wordsworth
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
— William Wordsworth
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
— William Wordsworth
We must be free or die, who speak the tongueThat Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth
And we shall findA pleasure in the dimness of the stars. — William Wordsworth
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
— William Wordsworth
to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature
— William Wordsworth
Faith is a passionate intuition.
— William Wordsworth
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
— William Wordsworth
Let Nature be your teacher
— William Wordsworth
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
— William Wordsworth
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet ...
— William Wordsworth
I'll teach my boy the sweetest things;I'll teach him how the owlet sings. — William Wordsworth
Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.
— William Wordsworth
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
— William Wordsworth
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I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess ...
— Eliot Paulina Sumner
O joy! that in our embersIs something that doth live. — William Wordsworth
could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.
— William Wordsworth
Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell: We were too late at least by one dark hour,
— William Wordsworth
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
— William Collins
Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flowFor old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago. — William Wordsworth
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
— William Wordsworth
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
— William Wordsworth
It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before ... there is a blessing in the air.
— William Wordsworth
Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.
— William Wordsworth
I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.
— William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
— William Wordsworth
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
— William Wordsworth
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
— William Wordsworth
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
— William Wordsworth
Truths that wakeTo perish never — William Wordsworth
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.
— William Wordsworth
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
— William Wordsworth
A deep distress has humanised my soul.
— William Wordsworth
Rest and be thankful.
— William Wordsworth
Books are the best type of the influence of the past.
— William Wordsworth
Free as a bird to settle where I will.
— William Wordsworth
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
— William Wordsworth
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
— William Wordsworth
How is it that you live, and what is it you do?
— William Wordsworth
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
— William Wordsworth
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
— William Wordsworth
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
— William Wordsworth
In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.
— William Wordsworth
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
— William Wordsworth
Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.
— William Wordsworth
The very flowers are sacred to the poor.
— William Wordsworth
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
— William Wordsworth
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
— William Wordsworth
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
While all the future, for thy purer soul,With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mindBut how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth
For nature then to me was all in all.
— William Wordsworth
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
— William Wordsworth
Come forth, and bring with you a heartThat watches and receives. — William Wordsworth
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
— William Wordsworth
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
— William Wordsworth
The power of any art is limited
— William Wordsworth
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
— William Wordsworth
Bliss it was in that dawn to be aliveBut to be young was very heaven. — William Wordsworth
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
— William Wordsworth
Milton, in his handThe thing became a trumpet — William Wordsworth
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
— William Wordsworth
The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
— William Wordsworth
Stop thinking for once in your life!
— William Wordsworth
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
— William Wordsworth
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
— William Wordsworth
To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.
— William Wordsworth
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
— William Wordsworth
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
— William Wordsworth
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. — William Wordsworth
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,Musing is solitude — William Wordsworth
The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
— William Wordsworth
The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination.
— William Wordsworth
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant
— William Wordsworth