William Wordsworth quotes - page 16

O Cuckoo shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice. (William Wordsworth)
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are noneLook up a second time, and, one by one,You mark them twinkling out with silvery light,And wonder how they could elude the sight. View quote
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For Nature then . . . To me was all in all. View quote
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From the body of one guilty deed a 1000 ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. View quote
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There 's something in a flying horse, There 's something in a huge balloon. View quote
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Provoke; The years to bring the inevitable yoke. View quote
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We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope. View quote
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Like an army defeated; The snow hath retreated. View quote
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity But it is the real key to the heart. View quote
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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. View quote
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We live by admiration, hope and love and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend. (William Wordsworth)
The vision and the faculty divine Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. View quote
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Not in Utopia, - subterranean fields, -Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, - the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all. View quote
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No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled around in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. View quote
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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way. View quote
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The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. View quote
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy; Shades of the prison-house begin to close; Upon the growing boy. View quote
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. View quote
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. View quote
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Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod. View quote
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That blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened. (William Wordsworth)
By all means sometimes be alone salute thyself see what thy soul doth wear dare to look in thy chest and tumble up and down what thou findest there. View quote
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Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. View quote
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