William Wordsworth Quotes
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
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But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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Truth takes no account of centuries.
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.
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A tale in everything.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
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The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.