Quotes from William Wordsworth

Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.

A deep distress hath humanised my soul.

Look at you comforting others with the words you wish to hear.

If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the house of man.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure: No fears to beat away - no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

Feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.