Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee 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
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
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
“I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power… — Eric Fischer Copy Share Image
“You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It's… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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 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
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of… — Ronald Carter 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
“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
“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
“into which he placed a large-print copy of Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” To this he added the bookworms,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Our teacher made us memorize the words to “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and alone in the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own… — L.A. Dale Copy Share Image
“I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell… — Peter Finch Copy Share Image
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
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