William Wordsworth Quotes

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.

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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

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His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

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

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

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That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

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Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

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Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.

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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

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Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.

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