All William Wordsworth Quotes
- "One impulse from a vernal wood From
- Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that,… All
- I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated… Actually Exist
- Let Nature be your teacher Funny
- Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods. Amongst
- All that we behold is full of blessings. All
- To begin, begin. Begin
- What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. Believe
- The things which I have seen I now can see no more. More
- I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can… Already Kindly
- Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at… Action
- Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double. . . Books
- Drink, pretty creature, drink! Creature
- I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient… Abode
- The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. Acts
- The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love Acts
- Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life,… All
- We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend Admiration
- Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar Nearer
- Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Nearer
- With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. Age
- Why do not words and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature that is kind in woman's breast, And reason that in man is wise and… Breast
- Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find strength in… Behind
- Fill the paper with the breathings of your heart Breathings
- But, why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain? Dwell