Wordsworth Poetry Quotes: top 31 famous quotes about Wordsworth Poetry

Wordsworth Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Wordsworth Poetry quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind? — William Wordsworth

One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason;
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season. — William Wordsworth

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

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And has the nature of infinity. — William Wordsworth

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. — Oscar Wilde

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings. — William Wordsworth

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope. — Hany Abu-Assad

The eye
it cannot choose but see;
We cannot bid the ear be still;
Our bodies feel, where'er they be,
Against or with our will. — William Wordsworth

For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings... — William Wordsworth

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. — William Wordsworth

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit. — Robert Ferrigno

[ ... ]the stately and slow-moving Turk,
With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm. — William Wordsworth

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts

Poetry is the image of man and nature — William Wordsworth

The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness. — David McRaney

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. — William Wordsworth

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge — William Wordsworth

How crazy it is to be "yourself" by trying to live up to an image of yourself you have unconsciously created in the minds of others. — Thomas Merton

Go to the poets, they will speak to thee
More perfectly of purer creatures
— William Wordsworth

Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago. — William Wordsworth

The only way to be a giant in this universe is to realise first that you are a dwarf yet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two. — Colleen Hoover

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. — Wendelin Van Draanen

drown your fears in love! When — Nirmala

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. — 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

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth