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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 #Business #Eye
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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Powerful #Poetry #Feelings
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“Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Happiness #Earth #Pleasure
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“Rest and be thankful.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Being Thankful #Thankfulness
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“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Ocean #Sea #Environment
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Life #Beauty #Beautiful
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“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science”
-- William Wordsworth
#Expression #Spirit #Poetry Is
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“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Life #Education #Teacher
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“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Love #Freedom #Flower
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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Love #Betrayal #Heart
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“How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Real #Heart #Keys
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“one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Nature #Pleasure #Daffodil
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“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Giving #Heaven #Charity
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“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.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Heart #Home #Destiny
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“Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Feelings #Doe
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“Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Simple #Childhood #Liberty
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“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.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Flower #Sleep #Heart
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“In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Hands #Safety
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“What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Nature #Teach
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“That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Eye #Solitude #Inward
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“Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Heart #My Heart #Pleasure
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“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”
-- William Wordsworth
#I Love You #Birthday #Marriage
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“... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Stars #Pleasure
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“I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Boys #Teach #My Boys
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“The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Angel #Men #Wings
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“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.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Summer #Spring #Looks
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“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.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Sky #Way #Wheels
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“Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?”
-- William Wordsworth
#Men #Reason #Made
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“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”
-- William Wordsworth
#Action #Theory
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“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?”
-- William Wordsworth
#Friendship #Book #Looks
