William Wordsworth Quotes, Nature Quotes, Book Quotes

Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.

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The unconquerable pang of despised love.

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Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

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

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

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We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

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The child is father of the man.

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

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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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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

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