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
positive weed wisdom
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
love freedom flower
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
reflection peer-pressure habit
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
spring power men
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
fall sleep intelligent
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.
action theory
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
stars sleep afterlife
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;
being-thankful thankfulness
Rest and be thankful.
teacher
Let Nature be your teacher
summer july rivers
Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.
independent math world
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
strength sympathy time
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
sports retirement golf
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
nature pleasure daffodil
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.