William Wordsworth Quotes

476 quotes · Poet

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William Wordsworth Quotes

All Happy Wise Love Philosophical Grateful 476 quotes · page 23 of 40

William Wordsworth

Poet

Grateful

“I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.”

Heart Long Musical

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Melancholic

“The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.”

Men Eye Death

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Melancholic

“How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!”

Brother Land

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Lonely

“The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”

Sleep Sky

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Spiritual

“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.”

Heart Knowing Nature

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Calm

“Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.”

Nature Moon Blow

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Melancholic

“The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.”

Firsts Cry

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Confident

“A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.”

Men Yesterday

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Philosophical

“Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised”

World Moving Fall

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Wise

“Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.”

Heart Justice Keys

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Creative

“Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.”

Ends Compassion

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Optimistic

“The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow”

Children Today

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