15 Quotes by Dorothy Wordsworth

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness...

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

I’ve been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I’ll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.

Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.