Quotes from 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
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.
- William Wordsworth
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.
- William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
- William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
- William Wordsworth
Rest and be thankful.
- William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
- 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: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
- William Wordsworth
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
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;
- William Wordsworth