Quotes from William Wordsworth

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Father!—to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy,France standing on the top of golden hours,And human nature seeming born again.

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.

A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine,God being with thee when we know it not.

Small service is true service while it lasts:Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command.And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.