Monday 2 July 2012

Time For William Wordsworth Quotes

"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars." William Wordsworth

"Faith is a passionate intuition." William Wordsworth

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." William Wordsworth

"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind." William Wordsworth

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." William Wordsworth

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher." William Wordsworth

"To begin, begin." William Wordsworth

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can." William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes
Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began The Prelude.

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
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"The things which I have seen I now can see no more." William Wordsworth

"The child is father of the man." William Wordsworth

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." William Wordsworth

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist." William Wordsworth

"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more." William Wordsworth

"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave." William Wordsworth

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out." William Wordsworth

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity." William Wordsworth

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly." William Wordsworth

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." William Wordsworth

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness." William Wordsworth

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." William Wordsworth

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them." William Wordsworth

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." William Wordsworth

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn." William Wordsworth

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