Wordsworth Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through…
— J M Coetzee
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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
— Andrew Motion
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A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up…
— Rosamond Lehmann
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine…
— Harper Lee
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
— Irving Layton
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.
— Billy Collins
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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book…
— Thom Gunn
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Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
— Pico Iyer
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I…
— J M Coetzee
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All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity…
— Roger Deakin
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No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for…
— Allen Ginsberg
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what…
— Walter Pater
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We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
— Aravind Adiga
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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 healing power?
— Matthew Arnold
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Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like…
— William Wordsworth
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
— Philip Larkin
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When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and…
— Rob Sheffield
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And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so…
— Andrew Clements
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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
Who Wrote These Wordsworth Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Wordsworth Quotes as follows: