William Wordsworth quotes

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

To begin, begin.

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

The child is father of the man.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

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

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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

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

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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.