Life Quotes by William Wordsworth

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

— William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

— William Wordsworth

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

— William Wordsworth

Stop thinking for once in your life!

— William Wordsworth

“Plain living and high thinking.”

— William Wordsworth

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

— William Wordsworth

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

— William Wordsworth

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

“My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood.”

— William Wordsworth

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

— William Wordsworth

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

— William Wordsworth

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference…

— William Wordsworth

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

— William Wordsworth

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

— William Wordsworth

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its…

— William Wordsworth

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of…

— William Wordsworth

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life…

— William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful…

— William Wordsworth

Why do not words and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature that is kind in woman's breast, And reason that in man…

— William Wordsworth

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the…

— William Wordsworth

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse…

— William Wordsworth

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life,…

— William Wordsworth

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it…

— William Wordsworth

...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless…

— William Wordsworth

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit,…

— William Wordsworth

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind,…

— William Wordsworth

And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,'…

— William Wordsworth

He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem…

— William Wordsworth

Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In…

— William Wordsworth

. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through…

— William Wordsworth

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

— William Wordsworth

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

— William Wordsworth

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

— William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

— William Wordsworth

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

— William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it…

— William Wordsworth

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

— William Wordsworth

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

— William Wordsworth

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

— William Wordsworth

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

— William Wordsworth