William Wordsworth Quotes

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

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The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

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To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

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. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

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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.

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May books and nature be their early joy!

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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

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Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

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Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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