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
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William Wordsworth Quotes
William Wordsworth Quotes
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Biography
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| Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon |
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Their father was a legal representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and, through his connections, lived in a large mansion in the small town. Wordsworth, as with his siblings, had little involvement with their father, and they would be distant from him until his death in 1783.
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William Wordsworth - Quotes
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
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
William Wordsworth Quotes
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. - William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth Quotes
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. - William Wordsworth
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