100+ William Wordsworth Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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

source: - "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 46 (1798)

Topics: Life, Business, Eye, Quiet Space, Perfect Harmony

Quotation William Wordsworth That best portion of a man s life his little Quotes

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

source: - Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

Topics: Powerful, Poetry, Feelings, Overflow, Great Poet

Quotation William Wordsworth Life is divided into three terms that which was which Quotes

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

source: - William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2107, Delphi Classics

Topics: Happiness, Earth, Pleasure, Self Happiness

Quotation William Wordsworth Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears Quotes

Rest and be thankful.

Topics: Being Thankful, Thankfulness

Quotation William Wordsworth Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings it takes Quotes

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

Topics: Ocean, Sea, Environment

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

source: - William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

Topics: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Inspiration And Creativity, Writing Workshop

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Topics: Expression, Spirit, Poetry Is, Countenance, Impassioned

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

source: - William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

Topics: Life, Education, Teacher, Natural Things, Nature Beauty

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Topics: Love, Freedom, Flower, Meadows, Blooming Flower

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

source: - William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

Topics: Love, Betrayal, Heart, Mother Nature, Love And Nature

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

Topics: Real, Heart, Keys, Simplifying Life, Simplifying Your Life

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Topics: Nature, Pleasure, Daffodil

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

Topics: Giving, Heaven, Charity, Generosity And Giving, Gifts And Giving

Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

Topics: Heart, Home, Destiny, Evermore

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

Topics: Feelings, Doe

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

Topics: Simple, Childhood, Liberty

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; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

Topics: Flower, Sleep, Heart, Power And Control, Superhuman Powers

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Topics: Hands, Safety

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

Topics: Nature, Teach

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

Topics: Eye, Solitude, Inward, Pensive, Daffodil

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

Topics: Heart, My Heart, Pleasure, Pensive, Garden Love

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

Topics: I Love You, Birthday, Marriage, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Speech

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

Topics: Stars, Pleasure

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

Topics: Boys, Teach, My Boys

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

Topics: Angel, Men, Wings

Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

Topics: Summer, Spring, Looks, Departing

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

Topics: Sky, Way, Wheels

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

Topics: Men, Reason, Made, Periwinkle, Early Spring

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Topics: Action, Theory

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

Topics: Friendship, Book, Looks

All that we behold is full of blessings.

Topics: Gratitude, Blessing, Thank You Gratitude, Grateful Happy, Gratitude And Thanks

Let Nature be your teacher

Topics: Teacher

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

Topics: Love, Nature, Travel, Travel And Tourism

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

Topics: Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

Topics: Life, Heart, True Beauty

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

Topics: Love, Winter, Sound, Winter Love

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

Topics: Mean, Soul, Looks

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

Topics: Lakes, Water, Feelings, Sea Water

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Topics: Faith, Wisdom, Spiritual

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

Topics: Glory, Gentle

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Topics: Flower, Smell, Shy, Inspirational Flower

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

Topics: Sports, Retirement, Golf, Inspirational Golf, Funny Retirement

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

source: - 'Grant that by this' (1822)

Topics: Reflection, Peer Pressure, Habit

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

Topics: Lying, Flower, Garden, Too Deep

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Baby, Sleep, Infancy Is, Funeral Memorial

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

source: - "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Charity, Kind Deeds

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.

Topics: Nature, Humanity, Environmental, Sad Music, Hearing Music

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Topics: Death, Quiet

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

source: - "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

Topics: Lonely, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Pensive

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

Topics: Glory, Strife

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Topics: Art, Wall, Artist

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.

Topics: Nature, Littles, Too Much

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

Topics: Flower, Air, Breathe, Inspirational Flower, Spring Flowers

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

Topics: Men, Grieving, Shade

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Topics: Power, Waste, Getting High

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;

Topics: Stars, Sleep, Soul

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

Topics: Nature, Dark, Suffering

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

Topics: Independent, Math, World, Mathematics By Mathematicians

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.

source: - Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.