Words matter. These are the best William Wordsworth Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
The child is father of the man.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
To begin, begin.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
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.
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
The child is father of the man.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
