Home » William Wordsworth William Wordsworth William Wordsworth 1 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 Good, Man, Evil Add to Collection 2 Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth Art, Walls, Pictures Add to Collection 3 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 Business, Man, Doing Add to Collection 4 For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. William Wordsworth Music, Nature, Sad Add to Collection 5 Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. William Wordsworth Thinking, Living, High Add to Collection 6 But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. William Wordsworth Age, Old Age, Night Add to Collection 7 When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth Business, World, Tired Add to Collection 8 Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth Sports, Day, Golf Add to Collection 9 The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth Age, Wise, mind Add to Collection 10 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 Beauty, Perception, mind Add to Collection 11 The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. William Wordsworth Nature, World, Too Much Add to Collection 12 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 mind, Acting, Unknown Add to Collection 13 Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. William Wordsworth Power, Waste, Getting Add to Collection 14 Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth Faith, Passionate, Intuition Add to Collection 15 The things which I have seen I now can see no more. William Wordsworth Now, See Add to Collection 16 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 Flower, Freedom, Free Add to Collection 17 That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth Strength, Flower, Sympathy Add to Collection 18 That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth Life, Love, Kindness Add to Collection 19 Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth Powerful, Poetry, Feelings Add to Collection 20 To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth Flower, Deep, Lie Add to Collection 21 The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth Life, Love, Kindness Add to Collection 22 Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth Wisdom, Soar, Oftentimes Add to Collection 23 Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. William Wordsworth Nature, Heart Add to Collection 24 Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. William Wordsworth Hope, Sympathy, Suffer Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »
