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
art wall artist
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
nature teach
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
heart home destiny
Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.
stars dawn he-is-risen
But He is risen, a later star of dawn.
eye solitude inward
That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
nature humanity environmental
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.
faith wisdom spiritual
Faith is a passionate intuition.
death quiet havens
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
friendship book looks
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
sky way wheels
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.
powerful poetry feelings
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
summer spring looks
Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.
angel men wings
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
wise home heaven
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.