William Wordsworth Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Business, Tired, Self

  William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

• That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Solitude, Inward

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

• 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

  Lying, Eye, Solitude

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

• On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Men, Solitude

  1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.1-5.

• my brain
  Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
  Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
  There hung a darkness, call it solitude
  Or blank desertion.

  William Wordsworth

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Darkness

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.638, Wordsworth Editions

• On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
  Musing is solitude

  William Wordsworth

  Acceptance, Reflection, Men

  'The Excursion' (1814) preface, l. 1

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