Quotes By William Wordsworth

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

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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.

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.

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.

To begin, begin.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

The child is father of the man.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

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 ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

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.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.