All William Wordsworth Quotes
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Emotion
- Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. Beautiful
- Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. Betray
- The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. Flower
- In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is… Business
- I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no… Bore
- Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. Dark
- The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. Age
- For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. Environment
- When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,… Been
- The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is… Environment
- A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting… Acting
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we… Baby
- To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Blow
- One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. All
- 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… Application
- But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. Age
- How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. Bloom
- Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. Architecture
- Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. Day
- Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. Hope
- The ocean is a mighty harmonist. Environment
- Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Grace
- Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Getting High
- Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. Adore