William Wordsworth Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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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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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

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Dreams, books, are each a world.

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No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

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The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

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The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

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The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

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Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

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The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.

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Death is the quiet haven of us all.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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