William Wordsworth Quotes
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
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Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!
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But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
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We murder to dissect.
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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
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I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.
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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?
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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
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Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.
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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
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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.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?