Wordsworth Quotes

“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern…

— Margaret Irwin

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the…

— Rob Sheffield

Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

“The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a…

— William Wordsworth

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this…

— Bertrand Russell

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

— Lord Byron

Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to…

— Robert Musil

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

— Philip Larkin

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural…

— Konrad Lorenz

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it…

— Helen Bevington

I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people…

— Louis Auchincloss

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

— George Eliot

Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born…

— Harper Lee

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and…

— Agnes Repplier

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy…

— Adam Hochschild

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration,…

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him),…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and…

— Germany Kent

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.…

— Robert Hass

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of…

— Anonymous

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

— Pico Iyer