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Letter "W" » William Wordsworth Quotes
«Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Destiny,
Expectation
| Keywords:
evermore, expectation, infinitude, infinitudes
«Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us»
«Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory»
«I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.»
«A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows»
«Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!But in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all!»
«What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
airy, bolt, bolted, delude, deludes, deluding, fatal, shot, unwary, voices, whispering, whisperings
«. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
abode, blacken, blackened, blackens, deem, deeming, deems, dim, distant, exultation, fleeting, ghostly, kindred, moods, notes, obscure, profitless, purer, remembering, retains, shadowy, sublimity, thence, The Visionary, visionaries, visionary, wind power
«When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.»
«What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
emulates, emulating, rocket, rockets, The Rocket
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