William Wordsworth Quotes
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting
William Wordsworth
Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone
William Wordsworth
Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither
William Wordsworth
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar.
William Wordsworth
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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
But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
William Wordsworth
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man\'s life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility
William Wordsworth
