“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.””
Quotes by William Wordsworth
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.””
“Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind;In the primal sympathyWhich having been must ever be...””
“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoopThan when we soar.””
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.””
William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was an influential English Romantic poet who played a pivotal role in the emergence of the Romantic Age in English literature. Alongside Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he co-authored the ...