If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins Copy Share Image
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,” — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“The genius is apparent from page one. . . . A seamless fusion of virtuosity and insight. . . . If William… — Milo Behr Copy Share Image
“William Blake admired the work of William Wordsworth but is said to have once been so mad at him over a theological… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Wordsworth had discerned a 'spirit' which was at one and the same time immanent in and distinct from natural phenomena: 'A presence… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“Part of Wordsworth’s complaint was directed towards the smoke, congestion, poverty and ugliness of cities, but clean-air bills and slum clearance would… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I do not mean merely in its adding to enthusiasm that intellectual basis which in its strength, or that more obvious influence… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mr Wisdom,' said the girl who had led him into the presence. 'Ah,' said Howard Saxby, and there was a pause of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly made aware of another world of beauty and mystery such as I had never imagined to exist, except in… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration,… — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
![“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/544/adam-hochschild-4138_chekhov_how-many-really-great-writers-are-there_1459719.jpg)
![“He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only…” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b54/alain-de-botton-221_books_he-wordsworth-invited-his-readers-to-aba_616994.jpg)
![“There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or…” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg)
![“I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.” quote by Eliot Paulina Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/eliot-paulina-sumner-34053_findings_i-kind-of-got-inspired-by-william-wordsw_1536732.jpg)