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Famous William Wordsworth Quotes
“Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?”
“But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.”
“The very flowers are sacred to the poor.”
“Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!”
“The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.”
“Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.”
“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”
“Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.”
“The unconquerable pang of despised love.”
“Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?”
“The budding rose above the rose full blown.”
“One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.”
“The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.”
“Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.”
“Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.”
“the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.”
“Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none”
“Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet”