William Wordsworth Quotes

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Sympathy, Strength, Nothing

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

Nature, Teacher, Light

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth

Future, Life, Live

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

Faith, Intuition, Passionate

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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

Life, Power, Deep

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

Life, Love, Best

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

Poetry, Powerful, Feelings

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

Life, Love, Good

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

Heart, Paper, Fill

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth

Music, Nature, Sad

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

Nature, Heart, Betray

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

Nature, Dark, Suffering

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

Mind, Acting, Times

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth

Music, Heart, Long

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

Business, Honest, Modern

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
William Wordsworth

Sleep, Forgetting, Birth

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

Flower, Shy, Sweetest

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

Age, Wise, Mind

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

Good, Evil, May

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

Deep, Lie, Give

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Long

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth

Nature, Getting, Late

To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth

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

Age, Night, Old

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

Beauty, Mind, Human

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 7, 1770

Died: April 23, 1850

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