William Wordsworth

Poet English 1770 – 1850

English Romantic poet known for nature poetry and The Prelude.

428 quotes

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
Life
"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills."
Nature
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
Art
"The child is father of the man."
Wisdom
"Emotion recollected in tranquility is poetry."
Creativity
"Nature never wears the same expression twice."
Nature
"All that we behold is full of blessings."
Gratitude
"The human heart by which we live, imagination."
Imagination
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods."
Happiness
"The eye it cannot choose but see."
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Dreams
"Meager knowledge produces presumption rather than learning."
Knowledge
"The mind of man is capable of anything."
Power
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Wisdom
"What is this world but a place of trial?"
Life
"The sweetest thing that ever grew beside a human door."
Beauty
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
Life
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive."
Happiness
"In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost."
Nature
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love."
Kindness
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Education
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
Art
"The dew is on the grass, the day begins to break."
Hope
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
Creativity
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed."
Perseverance
"Liberty! thou art a glorious prize."
Freedom
"The human soul is mighty, nothing can subdue it."
Strength
"Virtue is not a mountain aloof to be climbed in solitude."
"There is a blessing in the air which makes us feel natural and happy."
Happiness
"The mind that is wise mourns the loss of ignorance."
Wisdom