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 waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.
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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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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.
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By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.