William Wordsworth Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

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For nature then to me was all in all.

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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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Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

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Faith is a passionate intuition.

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Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

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Rest and be thankful.

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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.

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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

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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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On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

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Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

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

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Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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Let Nature be your teacher

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We murder to dissect.

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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.

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