Quotes from William Wordsworth

A light to guide, a rod to check the erring, and reprove.

Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.

A slumber did my spirit seal;I had no human fears:She seemed a thing that could not feelThe touch of earthly years.No motion has she now, no force;She neither hears nor sees;Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,With rocks, and stones, and trees.

Truths that wake, to perish never.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

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 comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.