William Wordsworth

Quotes

• “The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be ble...”
• “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,An...”
• “Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findSt...”
• “Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendri...”
• “Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by ...”
• “When from our better selves we have too longBeen parted by the hurrying world, and droop,Sick of its business, of its pl...”
• “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
• “My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;”
• “Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
• “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
• “Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.”
• “Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”
• “Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”