He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

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 Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.

I am that person in front of whom the most difficult conditions of life are lost.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.