William Wordsworth Quotes, Nature Quotes, Historical Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes , Historical Quotes

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Baby Quotes , Lying Quotes

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Stars Quotes

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Profound Quotes , Secret Quotes

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes

Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower Quotes , Home Quotes

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sad Quotes , Nature Quotes

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Wise Quotes

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Nature Quotes

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Hands Quotes , Soul Quotes

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Humble Quotes , Character Quotes

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Business Quotes , Tired Quotes

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Stars Quotes , Pride Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Hours Quotes

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Joy Quotes , Remember Quotes

Love betters what is best

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower Quotes , Smell Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Death Quotes , Rocks Quotes

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Islands Quotes , Heaven Quotes