William Wordsworth Quotes on Literature (10 Quotes)


    Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

    Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

    All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

    The waves beside them danced but they; Out-did the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company.

    Poetry contains a natural delineation of human passions, human characters, and human incidents.



    Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

    Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion

    Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

    I wanderd lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretchd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company I gazedand gazedbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.


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