Dorothy Wordsworth quotes
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“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.130, Oxford University Press
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“An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : William Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, Shaver, Chester L (1988). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth”, Clarendon Press
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“Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.84, Oxford University Press
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“Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.141, Oxford University Press
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“Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth (1875). “Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803”, p.26
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“I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press
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“The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“The moon had the old moon in her arms ...”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.96, Oxford University Press
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“The moon shone like herrings in the water.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
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“I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness ...”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25
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“The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK
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“I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
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“I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : Dorothy Wordsworth (1987). “The Grasmere journal”, Michael Joseph
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“I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.”
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“I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.”
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“The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160
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“When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.”
-- Dorothy WordsworthSource : 'The Grasmere Journals' 15 April 1802.
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