William Wordsworth Quotes

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

William Wordsworth

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• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Artist

• He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • God
  • Father

• Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Children
  • Looks

• The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.

  

  P. J. Kavanagh

• Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Beautiful
  • Blue

• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Identity

• For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Desire

• Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

  

  Don McLean
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Simple
  • Judgment
  • Operations

• A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Emotional
  • Humans

• Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
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  • Something New

• Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Firsts
  • Atheism

• Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Up
  • Way
  • Rainbow

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

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Firsts
  • Immortal