Quotes by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Humility, ShynessWilliam Wordsworth
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Under the shadow of a stately Pile,
The dome of Florence, pensive and alone,
Nor giving heed to aught that passed the while,
I stood, and gazed upon a marble stone,
The laurelled Dante's favourite seat. A throne,

FlorenceWilliam Wordsworth
 
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To begin, begin!

William Wordsworth
 
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth
 
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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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