Wordsworth Quotes

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants

One moment now may give us moreThan fifty years of reason

How can I shut downIf you don't open up??