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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'd
And tongues that utter'd wisdom
better none — William Wordsworth
And 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
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!
— William Wordsworth
[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
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
A primrose by the river's brim
A yellow rose was to him.
And it was nothing more — William Wordsworth
A yellow rose was to him.
And it was nothing more — 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
And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,
In dignity of being we ascend. — 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
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 Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness — William Wordsworth
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness — William Wordsworth
It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
— Elizabeth 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
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
— 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
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth
A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.
— William Wordsworth
Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
— Matthew Arnold
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
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth
And we shall find
A pleasure in the dimness of the stars. — William Wordsworth
A pleasure in the dimness of the stars. — William Wordsworth
Faith is a passionate intuition.
— 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
Stop thinking for once in your life!
— William Wordsworth
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet ...
— William Wordsworth
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?
— William Wordsworth
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
— Irving Layton
I'll teach my boy the sweetest things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings. — William Wordsworth
I'll teach him how the owlet sings. — William Wordsworth
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
— William Wordsworth
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 embers
Is something that doth live. — William Wordsworth
Is something that doth live. — William Wordsworth
That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
— William Wordsworth
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.
— William Wordsworth
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
— William Wordsworth
To Wordsworth nature was the nurse; to us, it's the patient.
— Robert Hillman
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
— William Wordsworth
Nature's old felicities.
— William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
— 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
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
— William Wordsworth
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country
am I to be blamed? — William Wordsworth
The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country
am I to be blamed? — William Wordsworth
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know. — William Wordsworth
We feel that we are greater than we know. — William Wordsworth
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
— 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
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
— William Wordsworth
The simple Wordsworth ... / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
— Lord Byron
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.
— 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
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
— Andrew Motion
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
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
— 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
With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind
But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth
But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth
For nature then to me was all in all.
— William Wordsworth
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
— 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
Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell: We were too late at least by one dark hour,
— William Wordsworth
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven. — William Wordsworth
But to be young was very heaven. — William Wordsworth
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
— William Wordsworth
Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet — William Wordsworth
The 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
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
— William Wordsworth
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives. — William Wordsworth
That watches and receives. — 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
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
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