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Art Quotes by William Wordsworth
- Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
- Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
- Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the…
- As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
- The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe…
- If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
- Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring…
- With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art…
- Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.
- Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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