William Wordsworth Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• 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)

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

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Real, Power

• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Getting High, Waste

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

• Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Loneliness, Sleep

  'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)

• I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Power, Men

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907). “Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855”

• A power is passing from the earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Earth, Passing

  'Lines on the Expected Dissolution of Mr Fox' (1807)

• Imagination, which in truth
  Is but another name for absolute power
  And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
  And reason, in her most exalted mood.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Names, Imagination

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 14, l. 190

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