William Wordsworth Quotes

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...

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

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 behold a rainbow in the sky.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care.

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

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we come

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