Quotes from William Wordsworth
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
- William Wordsworth
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
- William Wordsworth
But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
- William Wordsworth
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
- William Wordsworth
We live by admiration, hope and love.
- William Wordsworth
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
- William Wordsworth
The child is the father of the man.
- William Wordsworth
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
- William Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
- William Wordsworth
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- William Wordsworth
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
- William Wordsworth
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
- William Wordsworth