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
tales
A tale in everything.
sweet poetry remains
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
poetry comfort breathe
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
love unconquerable despised
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
life way casual
Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
friends humble scorn
Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.
book wealth
These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.
truth century accounts
Truth takes no account of centuries.
wind tasks laborers
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
thoughtful thinking darkness
my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.
song thoughtful men
the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.
thoughtful men thinking
in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.
wisdom book poetry
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
angel blood differences
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.