William Wordsworth Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Humanity, Environmental

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

• I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Pride, Boys, Joy

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

• A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Beautiful, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

• A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Earth, Youth

  William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.88

• We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Youth, Madness, Poet

  "Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)

• If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.402, Wordsworth Editions

• Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Brain, Battle

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.236

• One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Flames, Soul

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.359, Wordsworth Editions

• To be young was very heaven!

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Youth, Young

  "The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).

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