Quotes By William Wordsworth

The child is father of the man.

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.

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

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.