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• How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Freedom, Flower

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

  William Wordsworth

  Strong, Intuition, Instinct

  William Wordsworth (1838). “The Sonnets of William Wordsworth: Collected in One Volume, with a Few Additional Ones, Now First Published”, p.157

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• The Rainbow comes and goes,
  And lovely is the Rose.

  William Wordsworth

  Appreciation, Flower, Rainbow

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

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• Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Home, Heaven

  'To a Skylark' (Ethereal minstrel!, 1827)

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Perception, Mind

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

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• Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Land, Ties

  1804 'The Affliction of Margaret', stanza 8 (published 1807).

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• And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Thoughtful, Breathing

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Blessing, Cities

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• [Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

  William Wordsworth

  Independent, Math, World

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• She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Stars, Twilight

  1804 'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1-4 (published 1807).

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• Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

  William Wordsworth

  Home, Heart, Destiny

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.507

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• 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)

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• What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

  William Wordsworth

  Passion, Men, Soul

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

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• The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Sea

  'Elegiac Stanzas' (on a picture of Peele Castle in a storm, 1807)

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• 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

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• Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

  William Wordsworth

  Patience, Father, Moving

  1839-40 Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, no.14,'Apology', l.9-14 (published in the Quarterly Review 1841).

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• Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

  William Wordsworth

  Cells, Rooms, Spirituality

  'Nuns fret not' (1807)

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• Have I not reason to lament
  What man has made of man?

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Reason, Made

  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.341

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• one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is
  too few.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Pleasure, Daffodil

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• Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

  William Wordsworth

  Insult

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.112

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• In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Safety

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.257

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• 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

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• Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
  Our meddling intellect
  Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
  We murder to dissect.
  Enough of Science and of Art;
  Close up these barren leaves;
  Come forth, and bring with you a heart
  That watches and receives.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Art

  'The Tables Turned' (1798)

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• But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

  William Wordsworth

  Light, Imagination, Rivals

  William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.137

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