quotes about Wordsworth
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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
-- Andrew MotionSource : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
-- Aravind Adiga -
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
-- Irving LaytonSource : Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
-- Philip Larkin -
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Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
-- Pico Iyer -
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
-- Thom Gunn -
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
-- Walter Pater