William Wordsworth Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

  Life, Business, Eye

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 46 (1798)

• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

• 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

  Life, Future, Past

  Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Perseverance, Kindness

  William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK

• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

• True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
  Whose veil is unremoved
  Till heart with heart in concord beats,
  And the lover is beloved.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Heart, True Beauty

  "To ____ ('Let other bards of angels sing...')". Poem by William Wordsworth, www.bartleby.com. 1824.

• Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Way, Casual

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

• Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While 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

  Life, Eye, Blood

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 46 (1798)

• He loves not well whose love is bold!
  I would not have thee come too nigh.
  The sun's gold would not seem pure gold
  Unless the sun were in the sky:
  To take him thence and chain him near
  Would make his beauty disappear.
  William Winter, Love's Queen.
  The unconquerable pang of despised love.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Queens, Winter

• For mightier far
  Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
  Of magic potent over sun and star,
  Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
  And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Life, Stars

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

• O dearer far than light and life are dear.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Light, Dear

  William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: 1823-1833”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

• While all the future, for thy purer soul,
  With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Love Is, Soul

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.70

• We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;
  And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,
  In dignity of being we ascend.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, And Love, Dignity

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.482

• Plain living and high thinking are no more.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Thinking, Idolatry

  "Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

• She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Differences, Graves

  'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' (1800)

• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Stars, Soul

  1802 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published 1807).

• Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Peace, Thinking

  "Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

• As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Death, Nature

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.427

• There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Noble, Earth

  The Prelude bk. 11, l. 393 (1850) See John Dewey 1; Hamer 1; Lyndon Johnson 5; Lyndon Johnson 6; Lyndon Johnson 8; Wallas 1

• A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Death, Children

  'We are Seven' (1798) (the words 'dear brother Jim' were omitted in the 1815 edition of his poems)

• I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Ocean, Men

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

• Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, World, Care

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.151

• How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Work

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 17

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