Quotes by W illiam W ordsworth

Quotes by W illiam W ordsworth

——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!

Source:TheWorld is Too Much With Us

——To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Source:Ode:Intimations of Immortality

——Some natural sorrow,loss,or pain that has been,and may be again.

Source:The Solitary Reaper

——That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.

Source:IWandered Lonely as a Cloud

——The rainbow comes and goes,And lovely is the rose.

Source:Intimations of Immortality

——Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Source:Lyrical Ballards

——With hope it is,hope that can never die,Effort,and expectation,and desire,And something evermore about to be.

Source:The Prelude

——The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet Iknow,where'er Igo,That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

Source:Intimations of Immortality

——I wandered lonely as a cloud,That floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once Isaw a crowd,A host,of golden daffodils.

Source:IWandered Lonely as a Cloud

——Choice word and measured phrase above the reach of ordinarymen.

Source:Resolution and Independence

——And he is oft the wisestman who is notwise at all.

Source:The Oak and the Broom

——Wisdom married to immortal verse.

Source:The Excursion