William Wordsworth Quotes on Mind (20 Quotes)


    A sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky, and in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.


    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.

    The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.



    Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.

    There is a comfort in the strength of love Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart.

    My brain; Worked with a dim and undetermined sense; Of unknown modes of being.

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

    Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

    Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

    Written in Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

    In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

    Strongest minds; Are often those of whom the noisy world; Hears least.

    A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.



    The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world.

    O Reader had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader you would find A tale in everything.

    Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.


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