Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.
William Wordsworth
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Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Every Christian needs to practice solitude just to be alone with God and enjoy his presence and buil...
SUNDAY ADELAJA we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generat...
THOM GUNN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, ...
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...
THOMAS MANN Impulses are hard to come by these days.
JACK LEVINE If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.
SUNDAY ADELAJA That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, the...
WALTER PATER In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We ca...
KATHRYN LASKY We pass through Time from birth in order to have from where to come, together with death.
SORIN CERIN In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-...
OKEY NDIBE Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to re...
HALLAJ The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wak...
HELEN BEVINGTON His birth parents literally gave him away at birth to another couple who, during his first year of l...
THOM SHUMAN Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETT Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who med...
GURU NANAK But solitude is sadness.'
'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The guys getting on the team are making sacrifices to come to William and Mary. They come here to hi...
CLIFF GAUTHIER I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
ARAVIND ADIGA Thinking is a picturing of all our experiences before birth or before conception. You cannot come to...
RUDOLF STEINER She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.
THIERRY BRETON Living in solitude is a far wiser choice than loosing out self- identity in planitude.
ANUJ SOMANY The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
VAN WYCK BROOKS The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses
VAN WYCK BROOKS birth pangs of a process.
ARIEL SHARON Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you can announce the seasons or the birth of a child, you can certainly announce the reasons for ...
LUKE LIROT To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The child is father of the man
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All things that love the sun are out of doors.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Strongest mindsAre often those of whom the noisy worldHears least.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
PHILIP LARKIN As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a...
EUGENIE CLARK Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude i...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY They seemed to protect their house ? in front of the net, the slot area ? and they blocked a lot of ...
MATT HENDRICKS I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Co...
JAMES COMEY But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
ANDREW MOTION God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s...
PAUL VALéRY God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s...
PAUL VALERY I was famous from birth
PETER FONDA We all have problems and we all meet problems, but the biggest problems in life are nowhere than in ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, na...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY When God is silent, we need to know Him deeper than we had known Him before
SUNDAY ADELAJA This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
ELIZABETH GILBERT You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,
DOUG ADAMS Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it cease...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
WILLIAM BLAKE We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep prima...
JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither giv...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
STEVIE WONDER My daughter, if she chooses to have a home birth or a midwife at her birth I want that to be an opti...
STACY DAVIS Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
T.S. ELIOT My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid fo...
JOAN RIVERS As people are waiting to celebrate the birth of Christ every year, many people connect with what we ...
LINDA CULLEN Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of...
AARON WOLF I think these folks have been very real. When you have a birth of a baby, when you have to travel wi...
PATTI MILLIGAN Many birth defects form during the embryonic period, before a woman even realizes she's missed her f...
AMY CASE What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth ...
CHANAKYA Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, befo...
BIBLE Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – t...
SUZANNE COLLINS Times of solitude provide the quiet atmosphere which allows our creative mind to come into play and ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
CATIE CURTIS Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature
SAMUEL JOHNSON O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordswort...
JOHN BURROUGHS Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare...
WILLIAM COLLINS We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. W...
KAMAND KOJOURI When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, t...
JAMES BUCHAN The only sign of life Ryan has shown in three days is when his brother William kissed him and a tear...
JO BROWN One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic imp...
ANTOINE PREDOCK The beauty of being comfortable in solitude is when we connect to someone deeply in our thoughts. Th...
ASCETIC ANGEL The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of swe...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And, when the streamWhich overflowed the soul was passed away,A consciousness remained that it had l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gif...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more in...
THOMAS MANN Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind be...
LEONARD ORR Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The people who come here love the solitude of it. It's just beautiful, and they take good care of it...
ALFRED COOPER I don't think it's very realistic to not talk. When you're really at a birth, and you can see a woma...
MALLORY MENSAH Sometimes it was something like the birth of a new child in the home. Sometimes it was illness of a ...
PHILIP SMITH We are ecstatic to announce the birth of our son! Everyone is happy, healthy and doing wonderful. Th...
BRITNEY SPEARS Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and sa...
L. RON HUBBARD Premature birth affects us all. I am proud to be asking people to join me in walking for someone the...
JOHN BOYD If you bring the baby to us within 72 hours of birth and if there is no harm deliberately inflicted ...
GEORGE WARD You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've b...
JOHNNY DEPP It is almost like giving birth to a newborn baby. I've seen this all before, but only in my mind. An...
TONY TEIXEIRA Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
BART SIMPSON Let your Father and your Mother be glad, and let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
PROVERB Of course you can talk to the baby after the birth and cuddle them and hold them close.
PAT FELSKE
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A six years' Darling of a pigmy size!
See, where '...
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Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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Full well I recollect. We often crossed
Each other's path...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere
Bold in maternal nature's care
And all the long year ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one!
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Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
...
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Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
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I hear thee and rejoice;
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,...
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Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,
...
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Beside a human door.
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Of it...
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Produced too slo...
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With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Under the sky's gray arch;
Smiling I watch the...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou unassuming Commonplace
Of Nature.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The poet's darling.
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Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the ...
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Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
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And at my easement sing,
Though it should prove a farewell...
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And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,
And...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.
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In field or forest with nice care,
Is none that with the l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We take no note of time
But from its loss.
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And confident to-morrows.
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Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom befor...
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The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the b...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The swan on still St. Mary's lake
Float double, swan and shadow!
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The pious bird with the scarlet breast,
Our little Engl...
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One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
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With those whom he saw suffer.
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That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all t...
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His homely tale, this very day;
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Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
Of Severn, Sever...
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Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on hig...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH From Stirling Castle we had seen
The mazy Forth unravelled;
Had trod the banks of Clyde and Ta...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witching of the soft blue s...
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Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
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W...
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An...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Hail to thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, linnet! in thy green array...
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Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
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Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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- William Wordsworth,
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
...
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Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to form...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast
False fires, that others may be lost.
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Those bright blue eggs together laid!
On me the chance-discove...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ear...
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Smiles that with motion of their own
Do spread, and sin...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A tale in everything.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee,
And was the safeguard of the West.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
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There's something in a huge balloon.
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He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the li...
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Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung f...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice?
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and goo...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Rest and be thankful.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's n...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Tho...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of someth...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
T...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;
Look up a second time, and, one by one,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollect...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fount...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And mighty poets in their misery dead.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the en...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH