Top 400 William Wordsworth Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— William Wordsworth

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3. “Rest and be thankful.”

— William Wordsworth

4. “That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

— William Wordsworth

5. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

— William Wordsworth

6. “Faith is a passionate intuition.”

— William Wordsworth

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7. “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

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8. “Let Nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

9. “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.”

— William Wordsworth

10. “Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.”

— William Wordsworth

11. “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.”

— William Wordsworth

12. “That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

— William Wordsworth

13. “A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”

— William Wordsworth

14. “The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”

— William Wordsworth

15. “The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow.”

— William Wordsworth

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16. “Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.”

— William Wordsworth

17. “One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”

— William Wordsworth

18. “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.”

— William Wordsworth

19. “Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”

— William Wordsworth

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20. “We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

— William Wordsworth

21. “Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?”

— William Wordsworth

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— William Wordsworth

24. “Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”

— William Wordsworth

25. “Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.”

— William Wordsworth

26. “How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”

— William Wordsworth

27. “Free as a bird to settle where I will.”

— William Wordsworth

28. “Love betters what is best.”

— William Wordsworth

29. “On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude.”

— William Wordsworth

30. “Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.”

— William Wordsworth

31. “The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”

— William Wordsworth

32. “The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.”

— William Wordsworth

33. “To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.”

— William Wordsworth

34. “Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”

— William Wordsworth

35. “We live by admiration, hope and love.”

— William Wordsworth

36. “To begin, begin.”

— William Wordsworth

37. “The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.”

— William Wordsworth

38. “Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”

— William Wordsworth

39. “For nature then to me was all in all.”

— William Wordsworth

40. “What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.”

— William Wordsworth

41. “A deep distress has humanised my soul.”

— William Wordsworth

42. “And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.”

— William Wordsworth

43. “Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.”

— William Wordsworth

44. “Plain living and high thinking are no more.”

— William Wordsworth

45. “Books are the best type of the influence of the past.”

— William Wordsworth

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46. “Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv’st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.”

— William Wordsworth

47. “Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

— William Wordsworth

48. “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;.”

— William Wordsworth

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

— William Wordsworth

50. “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.”

— William Wordsworth