William Wordsworth

"The child is father of the man; and I could wish my days to be bound each to each by natural piety."

"A Poet's mind is in fact a kind of naturally imposed and cultivated sensibility to the beauty and power of nature."

"Solitude is the best nurse of the wise; madness is the child of company."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"We are laid asleep in body, and become a living soul; how awful is the thought of awakening to consciousness!"

"Words are things; a small drop of ink makes thousands think."

"One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more than all the sages can."

"The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket."

"There's nothing small by which we live; there's nothing great beyond our power."

"The moving accident is not my trade; to freeze the blood I have no ready arts."

"Kindness does not ennoble the man who practices it; it ennobles the man to whom it is shown."

"To seek for glory is to miss that which makes life worth living."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"The poetry of earth is never dead; it sleeps in the seeds and waits in the sun."

"All that we behold is full of blessings; the morning grass beneath our feet speaks truth to those who listen."

"A man may devote himself heart and soul to a pursuit and still fail; what matters is that he tried with integrity."

"The happiness which consists in the cultivation of virtue is the only permanent happiness."

"There is a power in the mountains that calls to something deep within the soul of man."

"The human condition demands that we find meaning not in what we achieve, but in how we strive."

"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies."

"To be unshackled by the chains of convention is to be truly free."

"The greatest works are built not from inspiration alone, but from disciplined labor and humble persistence."

"In grief, we often find the deepest truths about love and what it means to be human."

"There exists in the human heart a love of justice that no tyranny can extinguish."

"The poet's eye sees in all things the potential for wonder and revelation."

"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water; yet we shall be remembered not for what we had, but what we gave."

"The smallest flower that blooms contains within it the entire cosmos of divine intention."

"To understand the present, we must reverently study the past; to build the future, we must learn from both."

"There is no force in the world equal to an idea whose time has come."

"The fountains of great poetry are found in the lives and hearts of simple, ordinary people."