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Quote by William Wordsworth

“Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.”

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William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet, born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, and died on April 23, 1850. His poetry is renowned for its depiction of natural landscapes and profound expression of personal emotions and inner world. more

“Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”

Light Eye Heaven Rich Gold Add Paint Ridiculous Ice Titles Excess Rainbow Smooth Perfume Violet Lilies Refined Hue

Author:William Shakespeare

“Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.”

Heaven Grows Stage Scene Thousand Hundred Tragedy Rage Inches Blazing Lear

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.”

Ifs Should Helping Dies Heaven Laughing Shame Capture Helpless Yankees Leaving Me

Author:Vivien Leigh

“I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.”

Want Heaven Hero Honor Philip Kidneys

Book:The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

Source: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

“I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.”

Thinking Knows Littles Remember Used Joy Heaven Dark Boys Tree Sky Ignorance Slender

Author:Thomas Hood

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