William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was 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 (1798).Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as “the poem to Coleridge”. Wordsworth was Britain’s poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. ( From Wikipedia)
QUOTES OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.”– William Wordsworth
“A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”– William Wordsworth
“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.”– 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
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” – William Wordsworth
“Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.” – William Wordsworth
“Rest and be thankful.” – William Wordsworth
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science” – William Wordsworth
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth
“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.” – William Wordsworth
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” – William Wordsworth
“How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.” – William Wordsworth
“One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.” – William Wordsworth
“Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being’s heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.” – William Wordsworth
“Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.” – William Wordsworth
“Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.” – William Wordsworth
“In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.” – William Wordsworth
