William Wordsworth Quotes

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The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us as a necessary part of our existence, our natural and unalienable inheritance; the other is a personal and individual acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings.

William Wordsworth
Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

William Wordsworth
I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.

William Wordsworth
There is a Thorn - it looks so old, In truth, you'd find it hard to say How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and gray.

William Wordsworth
From Stirling Castle we had seen
The mazy Forth unravelled;
Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,
And with the Tweed had travelled;
And when we came to Clovenford,
Then said "my winsome marrow,"
"Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,
And see the braes of Yarrow."

William Wordsworth
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

William Wordsworth
For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

William Wordsworth
The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

William Wordsworth
The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

William Wordsworth
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake,
To perish never.

William Wordsworth
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

William Wordsworth