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William Wordsworth: Quotes

  • Action
    Action is transitory—a step, a blow,
    The motion of a muscle, this way or that—
    'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy
    We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed.
    William Wordsworth: The Borderers
  • Birth
    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
  • Children and Childhood
    The Child is father of the Man.William Wordsworth
  • Death
    The good die first,
    And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
    Burn to the socket.
    William Wordsworth: The Excursion
  • Flowers and Trees
    I wandered lonely as a cloud
    That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
    When all at once I saw a crowd,
    A host, of golden daffodils.
    William Wordsworth
  • Flowers and Trees
    To me the meanest flower that blows can give
    Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
    William Wordsworth
  • Kindness
    . . . that best portion of a good man's life.
    His little, nameless, unremembered acts
    Of kindness and of love.
    William Wordsworth
  • Mercy and Compassion
    Worse than idle is compassion
    If it ends in tears and sighs.
    William Wordsworth
  • Nature
    Nature never did betray
    The heart that loved her.
    William Wordsworth
  • Pain and Suffering
    Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
    And shares the nature of infinity.
    William Wordsworth: The Borderers
  • Poetry and Poets
    Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads
  • Sky and Space
    My heart leaps up when I behold
     A rainbow in the sky:
    So was it when my life began;
    So is it now I am a man:
    So be it when I shall grow old,
     Or let me die!
    William Wordsworth
  • Taste
    Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.William Wordsworth
  • The World
    The world is too much with us; late and soon,
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
    Little we see in Nature that is ours;
    We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
    William Wordsworth
  • Wisdom and Sense
    Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.
    William Wordsworth: The Excursion