William Wordsworth Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Book, Toil

  'The Tables Turned' (1798)

• May books and nature be their early joy!

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Book, Joy

  William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.124

• Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Dream, Strong

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.140

• Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.338

• Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

  William Wordsworth

  Book, Past, Lovers

• Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Book

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanza 3.

• Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Book, Age

  William Wordsworth (1841). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.135

• These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.

  William Wordsworth

  Book, Wealth

• Knowledge and increase of enduring joy
  From the great Nature that exists in works
  Of mighty Poets.

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Book, Poetry

  William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, p.131, London E. Moxon 1850.

• Careless of books, yet having felt the power
  Of Nature, by the gentle agency
  Of natural objects, led me on to feel
  For passions that were not my own, and think
  (At random and imperfectly indeed)
  On man, the heart of man, and human life.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Book, Passion

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

• Dreams, books, are each a world.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Book, World

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.368

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