Quotes by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

English poet

Lived from: 1770 - 1850

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 april 1770 Died: 23 april 1850

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  • I traveled 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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  • In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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  • Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
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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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  • No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
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  • Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
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  • Not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.
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  • Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
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  • Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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  • Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
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  • Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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  • She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
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  • Small service is true service, while it lasts.
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  • Spires whose silent finger points to heaven.
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  • t Is distance lends enchantment to the View.
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  • That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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  • That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
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  • The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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  • The child is father of the man.
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  • The child is the father of the man.
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