873 Quotes by William Wordsworth

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

The cottage which was named the Evening Star/ Is gone.

My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.