William Wordsworth Quotes

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William Wordsworth

Profession : Poet

Birth : April 7, 1770

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

William Wordsworth

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

William Wordsworth

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

William Wordsworth

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

William Wordsworth

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

William Wordsworth

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

William Wordsworth

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth