Wordsworth Quotes

25 Wordsworth quotes by 22 unique authors

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
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. — Andrew Motion
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
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
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton
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
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
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. — Pico Iyer
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
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
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
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
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
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. — Aravind Adiga
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
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
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. — Philip Larkin
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
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
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
Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. — Philip Larkin
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all… — Andrew Motion
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins
All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character… — Mahatma Gandhi
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after… — John Ruskin

Who Wrote These Wordsworth Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 25 Wordsworth Quotes as follows: