William Wordsworth Quotes

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

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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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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

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

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Free as a bird to settle where I will.

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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

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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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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

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Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

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Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

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Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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

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Truths that wake To perish never

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In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.

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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

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Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

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

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