What Quote » Poet Quotes » Quotes by William Wordsworth »

A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.  
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a co...  
A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!  
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall...  
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.   Nature
Faith is a passionate intuition.   Faith
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.   Art
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.  
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith mo...  
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtles...  
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated...  
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.  
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of th...  
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor gr...  
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin ...  
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little...  
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly t...   Dreams
I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! di...  
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is...   Business
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.  
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mi...  
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which...  
Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.  
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.  
Neither evil tongues, rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, ...  
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled ar...  
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder ...  
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evi...  
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness...  
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.   Art
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain ...  
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid ...  
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.  
Small service is true service, while it lasts.  
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered ...  
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the he...  
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken...  
The Child is the father of the Man.  
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.  
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gro...  
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what i...  
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.  
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions....  
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we...  
This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; si...  
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.  
To begin, begin.  
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often li...  
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.  
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.  
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurryi...  
Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is ...  
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.  
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.  
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of ...