Quotes by William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth’s masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years that was revised and expanded a number of times. It was never published during his lifetime, and was only given the title after his death. Up until this time it was generally known as the poem “to Coleridge”. Wordsworth was England’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. More on [wikipedia]
The famous saying, “The child is father of the man. ” was said by none other than William Wordsworth.
“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”
“I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; ’tis falsely said That even there was intercourse Between the living and the dead. ”
“In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing. ”
On faith, “Faith is a passionate intuition. ”
“The things which I have seen I now can see no more. ”
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”
William Wordsworth on old age, “But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ”
William Wordsworth’s quote on the mind, “In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. ”
“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky”
William Wordsworth’s quote on pictures defacing walls, “Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ”
William Wordsworth on Poetry, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
“She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.”
“Small service is true service, while it lasts.”
William Wordsworth’s quote on suffering, “Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ”
A life quote by William Wordsworth “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love”