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William Wordsworth Quotes — 30 Quotes by William Wordsworth

That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.

William Wordsworth · She Was a Phantom of Delight, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, st. 4

Truths that wake, To perish never.

William Wordsworth · And cometh from afar:, Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, st. 9

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble Living and the noble Dead.

William Wordsworth · The Prelude, XI

The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet’s dream.

William Wordsworth · Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm (1807), st. 4

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

William Wordsworth · Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland (1807), Letter to Lady Beaumont [May 21, 1807]

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!

William Wordsworth · The Prelude, XI

Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.

William Wordsworth · To a Butterfly (I’ve Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour) (1807), st. 2

That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth · The Tables Turned, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798)

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

William Wordsworth · Lyrical Ballads [2nd ed., 1800]. Preface

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

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The Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

William Wordsworth · Laodamia (1815), st. 13

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth · The Tables Turned (1798), st. 4

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty!

William Wordsworth · She Was a Phantom of Delight, Ode to Duty (1807), st. 1

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.

William Wordsworth · And cometh from afar:, Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, st. 10

A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

William Wordsworth · Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, st. 9

Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears least.

William Wordsworth · The Excursion (1814), bk. I

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth · The Excursion, IV

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way.

William Wordsworth · She Was a Phantom of Delight, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, st. 2

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

William Wordsworth · By night or day,, Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, st. 4

Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth · The Tables Turned, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be?

William Wordsworth · Character of the Happy Warrior (1807)

The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.

William Wordsworth · The Solitary Reaper (1807), st. 4

We feel that we are greater than we know.

William Wordsworth · The River Duddon, 34, Afterthought

But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

William Wordsworth · And cometh from afar:, Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, st. 5

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