Blue sky Quote by Karen Armstrong

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

— Philip Larkin

“He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes,…

— Alain de Botton

Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

“into which he placed a large-print copy of Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” To this he added the bookworms, who busily…

— Jasper Fforde

“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,”

— James Hollis

“A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angelic light.”…

— J.T. Ellison

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,…

— Rob Sheffield

“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all hope, The…

— George Gordon Byron

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane…

— L.A. Dale

“Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Our teacher made us memorize the words to “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and alone in the kitchen now…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting…

— Margaret Irwin

“In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I…

— C.S. Lewis

“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.”

— Harper Lee

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

— William Collins