William Wordsworth Quotes
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.
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Truth takes no account of centuries.
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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
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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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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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For nature then to me was all in all.
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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.