William Wordsworth Quotes

English - Poet April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850

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

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Flower, Gardening, Shy, Sweetest, Smells

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

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

Nature, Heart, Loved, Never, Her, Betray

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

Flower, Strength, Sympathy, Back, Find

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

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

William Wordsworth

Nature, Teacher, Light, Your, Things

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, Hill, Long, More, Up

To begin, begin. - William Wordsworth

To begin, begin.

William Wordsworth

Motivational, Begin

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

William Wordsworth

Poetry, Feelings, Emotion, Powerful

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, Kindness, Best, Man

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

William Wordsworth

Life, Love, Kindness, Best, Man, Little

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, Perception, Know, Dignity

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

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

William Wordsworth

Nature, Suffering, Dark, Permanent

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

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom, Soar, Than, Stoop, Oftentimes

The ocean is a mighty harmonist. - William Wordsworth

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

William Wordsworth

Nature, Ocean, Mighty

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

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

William Wordsworth

Attitude, Stars, Pride, Rocket

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

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Heart, Communication, Your, Paper, Fill

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

Life, Future, Live, Past, Better, Three

Faith is a passionate intuition. - William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

Faith, Intuition, Passionate

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

Clouds, Sleep, Glory, Birth, Forgetting

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

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, Eye, Deep, Harmony, Joy

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

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

William Wordsworth

Believe, Wish, Find, Will, Need, Out

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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Day, Sports, Golf, Round, Idleness

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, Man, Know, Doing, Honest, Most

The child is father of the man. - William Wordsworth

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth

Father, Man, Dad, Child

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, Man, Evil, You, Moral, Wood

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

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

William Wordsworth

Hope, Sympathy, Without, Suffer, Mourn

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, Savage, Unknown, Now

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