Quotes about Wordsworth

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

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."