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Wordsworth Quotes by Andrew Motion
- But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
- 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…
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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… — Walter Pater
- There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather… — 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… — Rosamond Lehmann
- Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born… — 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… — 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… — Thom Gunn