William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworthwas a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 April 1770
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The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
imagination known lever moral
The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.
dim words
The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
grateful inward luxury
There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.
grow quit surely
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books;Or surely you'll grow double. . . .
clear toil trouble
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks;Why all this toil and trouble?
emulate pride rocket
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
draws feels life lightly simple
A simple child,That lightly draws its breath,And feels its life in every limb,What should it know of death?
air faith
And 'tis my faith, that every flowerEnjoys the air it breathes.
calmness conflict heat keeps sees
And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the lawIn calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
choice habit rules
And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.
love seem worthy
And you must love him, ere to youHe will seem worthy of your love.
cannot consciousness images passed precious remained shall silent soul
And, when the streamWhich overflowed the soul was passed away,A consciousness remained that it had left,Deposited upon the silent shoreOf memory, images and precious thoughtsThat shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.