William Wordsworth quotes - page 2

They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. (William Wordsworth)
Oh, be wiser thou Instructed that true knowledge leads to love. View quote
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Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet. View quote
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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. View quote
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Sweet Mercy to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. View quote
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Happier of happy though I be, like them; I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, One of a mighty multitude whose way; And motion is a harmony and dance; Magnificent. View quote
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Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure, Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. View quote
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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. View quote
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Alas how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays A face o'er which a thousand shadows go. View quote
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As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die. View quote
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Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. (William Wordsworth)
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. View quote
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. View quote
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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains,alas too few. View quote
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Nature's old felicities. View quote
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure. View quote
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. View quote
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And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd. View quote
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. View quote
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Faith is a passionate intuition. View quote
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. (William Wordsworth)
A brotherhood of venerable trees. View quote
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Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. View quote
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The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky. View quote
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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. View quote
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