Quotes from William Wordsworth
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.
- William Wordsworth
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
- William Wordsworth
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
- William Wordsworth
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
- William Wordsworth
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
- William Wordsworth
All that we behold is full of blessings.
- William Wordsworth
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
- William Wordsworth
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!
- William Wordsworth
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
- William Wordsworth
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
- William Wordsworth
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- 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