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William Wordsworth Quotes

«Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more»
«Characters of the great Apocalypse,/ The types and symbols of Eternity,/ Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.»
«Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.»
«Like an army defeated/ The snow hath retreated.»
«As high as we have mounted in delight,In our dejection do we sink as low.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: dejection
«Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men; a stately speech.»
«A power is passing from the earth.»
«Yet sometimes, when the secret cupOf still and serious thought went round,It seemed as if he drank it up --He felt with spirit so profound.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: drank
«But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: hush, hushed
«With gentle handTouch -- for there is a spirit in the woods.»