The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
William Wordsworth
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KELLY JONES But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
ANDREW MOTION That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole
earth, and uttered in all the language...
DANIEL WEBSTER Ethics are the moral compass of a human society that change and adjust over time.
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Light up the radiant flame of conscience, goodwill and compassion in your heart, and go over the len...
ABHIJIT NASKAR It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time...
KEITH MELDAHL Climate change: Diligent forests and the mighty sea grip eachother by the arm to hold this world tog...
MEG NEZAJ Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God tha...
WILLIAM M EVARTS It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that ...
WILLIAM M. EVARTS By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the ba...
SHERI L. DEW All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same t...
MAHATMA GANDHI The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empi...
LINDA GOODMAN Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws to...
GINNI ROMETTY The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of...
SUZY MENKES And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ...
MARK LAWRENCE They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
MARK LAWRENCE A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
MARK LAWRENCE That vapor is very hot and expands outward from the point of impact, cooling and expanding as it goe...
LAWRENCE GROSSMAN Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories
Never with our footsteps
MIMI NOVIC VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never m...
TITE KUBO The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is pa...
VIOLETTE NAKHJAVANI It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The chance to do it over again is called now.
J.R. RIM Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C. The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Men are given strong muscle by God; at the same moment they are blessed with a special creative dyna...
CHANDAN KUMAR DE The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of da...
LEE TIEN Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL I have never been one for the over-the-top.
RICK ALLEN Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of ...
WILL CARLETON Over all our happy country -- over all our Nation spread,Is a band of noble heroes -- is our Army of...
WILL CARLETON The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sove...
ABRAHAM KUYPER I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Awkward. Sorry."
"Don't be," Sadie said. "I'll rather enjoy bashing my brother's face in.
RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else...
NATAN SHARANSKY Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they lo...
BO SANCHEZ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over th...
BIBLE By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done--And...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentime...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and o...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help o...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftent...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Small service is true service, while it lasts.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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 Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of li...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollecte...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Behold the Child among his new-born blisses
A six years' Darling of a pigmy size!
See, where '...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The child is the father of the man.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had el...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, dome...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of al...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
L...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Solitary answered: Such a Form
Full well I recollect. We often crossed
Each other's path...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed pr...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtles...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a s...
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!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A famous man is Robin Hood
The English ballad-singer's joy.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and wer...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH O blithe New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice;
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight
Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I look for ghosts; but none will force
Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
That even there was ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of it...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slo...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing
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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay,
And at my easement sing,
Though it should prove a farewell...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Now when the primrose makes a splendid show,
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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Among the dwellings framed by birds
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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom befor...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Like an army defeated
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!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Art thou the bird whom Man loves best,
The pious bird with the scarlet breast,
Our little Engl...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I heard a Stock-dove sing or say
His homely tale, this very day;
His voice was buried among tr...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
Of Severn, Sever...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Like--but oh! how different!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of i...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollecte...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The child is father of the man.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sa...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on hig...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are n...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of i...
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...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
W...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn'...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH This flower that first appeared as summer's guest
Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves
An...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Hail to thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, linnet! in thy green array...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from a...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Meek Walton's heavenly memory.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to form...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast
False fires, that others may be lost.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Behold, within the leafy shade,
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...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And she hath smiles to earth unknown--
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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the li...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,
Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung f...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of bei...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A primrose by a river's brimA yellow primrose was to him,And it was nothing more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset t...
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!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Am...
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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...
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