873 Quotes by William Wordsworth

Great God! I’d rather be a Pagan...

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e’er you can.

Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Meek Nature’s evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams – can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.